Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.On November 19 Oxford University announced that its own COVID-19 vaccine, developed in collaboration with AstraZeneca, produced a safe immune response in older adults.
that a vaccine, developed in collaboration with AstraZeneca, produced a safe immune response in older adults. "As expected, the timelines have been really cut short," Melvin Sanicas, a vaccinologist with the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in the UK said. "Typically vaccines take five to 10 years to develop, or even longer, but as we can see now we probably will have a vaccine approved by the end of the year or early next year. This is definitely exciting."
What's more, the reported effectiveness of the vaccines to date outstrips the levels that most expected. "The US FDA mentioned the threshold for the vaccine efficacy they would accept is something like 50%, and the European Medical Agency said 60%," he said. "We have seen that if everyone stops what they're doing and focuses on something, things happen much faster," Sanicas said. "For COVID, there are over 200 groups working on vaccines at the moment, and this has never happened before in the past for any pathogen — not even HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, or the flu pandemic in 2009.
Jonathan Van-Tam, the colleague of another Transformers 100 member, Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, has repeatedly told the British public that part of the battle against coronavirus will be fought through strength in numbers, not relying on simply a single silver bullet.
ING_news Reliability and side-effects hadn't been totally published so wait till its commercialisation, will then see unless someone willing to be Guinea pigs.
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