Australian Professor and COVID-19 Vaccine Developer Could Lose Job After Refusing Shots

Australian Professor and COVID-19 Vaccine Developer Could Lose Job After Refusing Shots
Vaxine research director Nikolai Petrovsky in the Flinders University lab in Adelaide, South Australia, with a vaccine specimen, on July 2, 2020. David Mariuz/AAP Image
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Australian professor and vaccine developer Nikolai Petrovsky faces losing his job after refusing to get one of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)-approved shots, the ABC reported.

Petrovsky developed his own COVID-19 vaccine, called COVAX-19, through his company Vaxine, which has laboratories at Flinders University. It completed phase one trials in August last year and the Adelaide-based medical researcher has administered the vaccine himself.

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