A top executive at AstraZeneca PLC pushed back on Wednesday against criticism that the company failed to disclose enough data from a clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine earlier this week, and acknowledged skepticism about the vaccine’s 90% effectiveness in a group of patients who were accidentally given a lower dose than intended.

“I’m not going to pretend it’s not an interesting result, because it is—but I definitely don’t understand it and I don’t think any of us do,” said Mene Pangalos, AstraZeneca’s executive vice president…

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