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The Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is safe, but questions remain over its efficacy – The New Daily
Some have criticised Australia’s AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccination strategy, saying we should have banked on the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines instead.
There are 53.8 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine on order. It, too, requires two injections per person, given several weeks apart.A headline from The Australian sums up the panic: Vaccine not good enough to stop the coronavirus.
Is it true? The fact is, we don’t know for sure how well the AstraZeneca vaccine works.
The complaints from doctor groups is based on data from an interim report published in The Lancet in early December.
The researchers concluded the vaccine was “safe and efficacious…
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