Britain’s medical regulator today revealed that a handful people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca coronavirus jab developed a rare type of blood clot in the brain. The MHRA said five out of 11million Britons given the injection went on to develop cerebral sinus vein thrombosis (CSVT). The cases were all men aged between 19 and 59 and … Read more
A senior German immunologist has urged Angela Merkel to be vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine live on television. Carsten Watzl, secretary general of the German Society for Immunology, said the Chancellor of Germany should allow over-65’s to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine and suggested she lead by example. Officials fed doubts over the Oxford University researched jab’s effectiveness amid reports … Read more
Spacing Oxford University’s Covid vaccine doses 12 weeks apart actually boosts the jab’s effectiveness, according to a study which suggests the UK’s dosing gamble has paid off. When the second injection is given after three months the vaccine prevents 81 per cent of people from getting symptomatic illness. But when there is only between three … Read more
Britain today started to dish out Oxford’s game-changing Covid vaccine in what has been called a ‘pivotal moment’ in the fight against the pandemic, with an 82-year-old dialysis patient becoming the first person to receive the jab. Brian Pinker, a retired maintenance manager who describes himself as Oxford born and bred, said he was ‘so … Read more
Questions are being asked over the speed at which the UK managed to approve the ‘game-changing’ Oxford University/AstraZeneca jab. Yesterday, Britain became the first and only country to give the go ahead for the use of the vaccine, following rigorous trials which found no-one who was given the jab became seriously ill. Dr June Raine, … Read more
Britain will only have 530,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine at its disposal from Monday, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed today after the game-changing jab was approved by the UK medical regulator. The initial doses fall significantly short of the number touted by the Government in recent months. In May, officials suggested 30million doses of … Read more
Britain could be free of tight Covid restrictions by the end of February, after Ministers pinpointed the 15 million people who would need vaccinations to end the cycles of crippling lockdowns. With the ‘game-changing’ Oxford jab expected to be approved within days, the Government hopes that enough doses will soon be available to inoculate those … Read more
Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine on track to be approved ‘shortly after Christmas’, top scientist says as he says study data looks ‘better than ever’ UK regulator the MHRA has been analysing study data since November 27 Testing suggests the vaccine is either 62% or 90% effective, depending on doses Either dosing regime looks good enough for … Read more
AstraZeneca would have run the Oxford coronavirus vaccine trials differently if it had been in charge, a boss at the pharmaceutical giant has said. The study of the vaccine became confused and produced two possible levels of efficacy after one batch of the jabs was found to be half as potent as the rest. While … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has asked the UK’s drugs regulator to ‘understand the data’ coming out of Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine trial as it decides whether to approve the jab for public use. Government officials last night asked the MHRA to consider giving emergency approval for the jab so that it could be given out from … Read more