Five things to know about the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine

An illustration picture shows vials with COVID-19 Vaccine stickers attached and syringes, with the logo of the University of Oxford and its partner British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, on November 17, 2020. The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine has the major advantages of being inexpensive, costing about £2.50 per dose, and easy to store.

The US Food and Drug Administration said last month that frozen vials of the Pfizer jab may be stored at temperatures commonly found in pharmaceutical freezers for up to two weeks.Denmark said on Thursday it would suspend use of the AstraZeneca vaccine as precautionary measure over fears of blood clots of in vaccinated people.

Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Luxembourg suspended vaccinations with doses from the same batch, which has been delivered to 17 countries and included one million vaccines.The vaccine was first approved for use in the general population in Britain, which ordered 100 million doses of the jab. Tensions boiled over into diplomatic relations in the same month when the EU invoked a Brexit deal protocol over export controls on coronavirus vaccines.More recently, Italy blocked the export of a 250,000 dose shipment of AztraZeneca vaccine to Australia, citing “persistent shortage” and “delays in supply”.

The vaccine is “safe and effective”, according to data published by The Lancet medical journal on December 8, with only one of the of the 23,754 volunteers who participated in the trials experiencing “possibly-related severe side effects”. The injection of a half dose was conducted by accident, raising criticism over the robustness of the results and prompting the company to conduct additional studies.

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