Health
Oxford starts work on potential COVID-19 vaccine pill – The Sydney Morning Herald
Avoiding labour-intensive COVID-19 vaccination programs could be a crucial factor in the world learning to live with the disease.
And we have flu vaccines that are given by nasal spray. This could be a very good approach in the future to use vaccines against coronaviruses.
Its also possible to consider oral vaccination where you take a tablet that will give you the immunisation, and that would have a lot of benefits for vaccine rollout if you didnt have to use the needles and syringes for people.
Professor Sarah Gilbert was a key figure in the development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Credit:John Cairns
Gilbert told British…
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