Rumor Mill: Trump to Approve AstraZeneca COVID-19 Before Election

AstraZeneca stock jumped more than 3% this morning after rumors broke that President Trump was considering fast-tracking the company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate. According to a Financial Times report, three people briefed on the plan indicated Trump wants to give AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine emergency use authorization (EUA) ahead of the U.S. presidential election on November 3.