Oxford vaccine produces immune response in old, young people

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One of the world's leading Covid-19 experimental vaccines produces an immune response in both old and young adults, raising hopes of a path out of the gloom and economic destruction wrought by the novel coronavirus.

AstraZeneca did not provide detail of the data behind the statement or say when it would publish eagerly awaited late-stage phase III trial data, which would show whether the vaccine works well enough in large scale trials for it to be approved.

If it works, a vaccine would allow the world to return to some measure of normality after the tumult of the pandemic. Immunogenicity blood tests carried out on a subset of older participants echo data released in July which showed the vaccine generated “robust immune responses” in a group of healthy adults aged between 18 and 55, the“We need to see the data before concluding that the responses were 'similar'," Stephen Evans, a professor of pharmacoepidemiology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said.

 

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