ALEX BRUMMER: Gift Britain has given world via Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine undermined by EU squabbling and medical-politics in US By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:55 GMT, 26 March 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 26 March 2021 When my wife and I sat down a year ago to our Passover supper, known as the … Read more
The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is 100 per cent effective at keeping people out of hospital, a US study has confirmed. An extra trial of the vaccine in the US found it was more effective than it was in the UK research – preventing 79 per cent of all infections – and nobody got seriously ill. … Read more
PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: James Argent, 33, receives his FIRST dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as he is placed in the high-risk category after his doctor called his 26 stone weight ‘danger territory’ By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 18:14 GMT, 23 February 2021 | Updated: 18:15 GMT, 23 February 2021 Advertisement James Argent was pictured arriving … Read more
Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine IS safe and ‘likely effective’ for over-65s, World Health Organization rules as it officially recommends the jab ‘without an upper age limit’ The WHO, world’s leading health authority, gave the jab green light for over-65s Some European nations have refused to use the jab on older people Countries said there wasn’t enough … Read more
South Africa will suspend the start of its Covid-19 vaccinations with the AstraZeneca jab after a study showed the drug failed to prevent mild and moderate cases of the virus variant that has appeared in the country. Africa’s hardest-hit nation was due to start its campaign in the coming days with a million doses of … Read more
Scientists’ fury at ‘completely incorrect’ German claim that Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is only 8% effective in elderly people German publication Handelsblatt published figure, citing senior sources But Oxford University and AstraZeneca have hit back at the claim as ‘incorrect’ Other scientists have added they have ‘no idea’ where the data has come from By Luke … Read more
Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, refused to back Oxford’s vaccine The Chief Medical Officer has dodged giving the AstraZeneca jab his full backing as the company revealed it will run a new Oxford vaccine trial. Chris Whitty refused to back the injection when asked about the controversy surrounding data from its late-stage trials at a Downing Street … Read more
Britain believes that the vaccine, which Pfizer is co-developing with Germany’s BioNTech SE, could be ready to distribute before Christmas Officials in the British government expect that a verdict on whether Pfizer Inc-backed COVID-19 vaccine works will be available before the results are in on AstraZeneca Plc’s competing vaccine, it has been reported. Britain believes … Read more