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Vaccine co-creator defends its safety

Vaccine co-creator defends its safety

KATE KELLAND ONE of the Oxford scientists who co-developed AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine defended its safety on Friday and said he was not worried that some countries had opted to restrict its use amid concerns about a possible link to very rare side effects. Adrian Hill, director of the Oxford University's Jenner Institute, said teams around the world were working to pin down any potential mechanism for what might be causing the blood clots, using real world data now so many shots have been administered. He agreed with medicines regulators in Britain, and Europe, and with World Health Organization experts, that…
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Oxford scientists: these are final steps we’re taking to get our coronavirus vaccine approved

Oxford scientists: these are final steps we’re taking to get our coronavirus vaccine approved

REBECCA ASHFIELD, Senior Project Manager, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford PEDRO FOLEGATTI, Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Jenner Institute, and PhD Candidate in Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford OF the hundreds of potential COVID-19 vaccines in development, six are in the final stages of testing, known as phase 3 clinical trials. One of these – ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 – is the vaccine we’re developing at the University of Oxford. To be approved, vaccines need to go through multiple rounds of testing to show that they’re safe and effective. A combined phase 1 and phase…
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