I was confused as to why they did this too—alternative guesses I had were to increase number of available doses or to decrease side effect severity.
However the site you link to has been updated with a link to Reuters who quote AstraZeneca saying it was an accident—they miscalculated and only noticed when side effects were smaller than predicted.
I was confused as to why they did this too—alternative guesses I had were to increase number of available doses or to decrease side effect severity.
However the site you link to has been updated with a link to Reuters who quote AstraZeneca saying it was an accident—they miscalculated and only noticed when side effects were smaller than predicted.
I guess the lesson being: Never attribute to n-dimensional chess that which can equally be attributed to stupidity.