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82-Year-Old Receives the First Dose the AZ-Oxford Vaccine 0
- Flash News
- January 4, 2021
The UK became the first country to approve the AstraZeneca-Oxford covid vaccine, on Wednesday, 30 December 2020. Today, Brian Pinker, 82, became the first person in the world, outside clinical trials, to receive the initial dose of the AZD1222 vaccine. AZD1222 Vaccine The AZD1222 vaccine uses an adenovirus that infects only chimpanzees as the
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Covid-19 Vaccines: A Timeline of Recent Advancements 0
- Covid-19, Flash News
- November 26, 2020
Images Credit: Mos.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, Rs-nourse, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moderna_Therapeutics_company_logo.png with UploadWizard, CC BY-SA 3.0 Press Releases: Sputnik: https://sputnikvaccine.com/newsroom/pressreleases/second-interim-analysis-of-clinical-trial-data-showed-a-91-4-efficacy-for-the-sputnik-v-vaccine-on-d/ AstraZeneca: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-23-oxford-university-breakthrough-global-covid-19-vaccine FDA: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-announces-advisory-committee-meeting-discuss-covid-19-vaccine Pfizer: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-conclude-phase-3-study-covid-19-vaccine Moderna: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-meets-its-primary-efficacy
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Covid-19 Candidate Vaccines Pass Safety and Efficacy Tests 0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- July 23, 2020
Two candidate vaccines (ChAdOx1 and Ad-5-nCoV) for Covid-19 have been shown to be safe and efficacious in humans, according to two studies published this week in The Lancet journal. Both vaccines are based on adenovirus vectors, DNA viruses that act as vehicles to carry SARS-CoV-2 proteins to the body, therefore eliciting a response against an
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