Health
Oxford scientists preparing new vaccine versions to combat emerging Covid strains – Telegraph.co.uk
Boris Johnson has said he is holding ‘intensive talks’ with scientists about new coronavirus variants
An Oxford source told The Telegraph that the vaccine scientists were working on estimating how quickly they could reconfigure their ChAdOx vaccine creation platform.
“The team do not currently think they will need to, but it would be stupid not to be prepared,” the source said. “It should take a day or two to tweak the system.”
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