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First doses ‘likely to be imperfect’: Vaccine chief offers gloomy reality check – Sydney Morning Herald
Britain’s coronavirus vaccination tsar says the first generation of COVID-19 vaccines are “likely to be imperfect” and might not prevent infection.
Bingham’s comments carry significant weight because she reports directly to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and is plugged in to pharmaceutical companies around the globe.
Writing in The Lancet medical journal, Bingham said the most advanced options, including the much-hyped vaccine being developed in the United Kingdom by the University of Oxford and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, are based on novel formats “for which we have little experience of their use”.
However, she did note promising early…
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