What do people think? It’s so aggressive yet their situation is so dire. It could in a way be helpful for other countries because they are basically running a massive experiment on their population. I guess this is one way to find out if transverse myelitis is a risk with this vaccine.
It seems a inconsistemt though that the Russian and Chinese rushed, unpublished vaccinations were characterized as dangerous and unethical yet this move is “bold.”
I though Oxford wouldn’t even report until late January to early Feb and would be approved in early Feb at the earliest. Have they even published Phase 3 preliminary data?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/world...eneca.html
LONDON — Britain became the first country on Wednesday to give emergency authorization to the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, opening a path for a cheap and easy-to-store shot that much of the world will rely on to help end the pandemic.
In a bold decision to accelerate vaccinations, a British government advisory body directed clinicians to give as many people as possible their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, without reserving supplies for planned second doses.
Instead of administering the two shots within a month, clinicians will wait as long as 12 weeks to give people their second doses, the government said, a decision that applies to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as well as the Pfizer-BioNTech shot that Britain authorized early this month
It seems a inconsistemt though that the Russian and Chinese rushed, unpublished vaccinations were characterized as dangerous and unethical yet this move is “bold.”
I though Oxford wouldn’t even report until late January to early Feb and would be approved in early Feb at the earliest. Have they even published Phase 3 preliminary data?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/world...eneca.html
LONDON — Britain became the first country on Wednesday to give emergency authorization to the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, opening a path for a cheap and easy-to-store shot that much of the world will rely on to help end the pandemic.
In a bold decision to accelerate vaccinations, a British government advisory body directed clinicians to give as many people as possible their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, without reserving supplies for planned second doses.
Instead of administering the two shots within a month, clinicians will wait as long as 12 weeks to give people their second doses, the government said, a decision that applies to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as well as the Pfizer-BioNTech shot that Britain authorized early this month