Australia swings behind Oxford vaccine after ‘devastated’ UQ misses its shot

Friday December 11, 2020

Biotech giant CSL will produce another 20 million doses of the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine after agreeing to halt its work with the University of Queensland.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is seen during a recent tour of the University of Queensland Vaccine Lab in Brisbane. (Photo: AAP Image/Darren England)

Work on a home-grown vaccine for COVID-19 had shown promising results but researchers and public health officials were unable to mitigate an external impact: people who had the shot would also have recorded false positive results to HIV, due to the type of…

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