The boy, who was aged between two and four, suffered a cardiac arrest after receiving the one-off gene therapy last year. It was poised to become one of the world's most expensive drugs.
READ MORE: Pfizer has paused its trial of a drug for a rare muscle-wasting disease after a child died suddenly.
The New York pharma giant said the pause would allow it to investigate the death 'while protecting the safety of the participants, which is our top priority.'The victim was part of a mid-stage study that enrolled children between the ages of two and four with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Read More Neuroscientist, 37, and nurse, 54, claim they were left brain damaged and paralyzed from Covid vaccines - as they say they've been 'dismissed and gaslighted' as anti-vaxxers Pfizer has paused administering the same gene therapy in a separate final-stage study that enrolled boys aged up to eight.
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