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Testing times: More work needed on AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine trials – Sydney Morning Herald

AstraZeneca and Oxford University have more work to do to confirm whether their COVID-19 vaccine can be 90 per cent effective, peer-reviewed data published in The…

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“(This) will require further research as more data becomes available from the trial,” the study said.
Less than 6 per cent of UK trial participants were given the lower dose regimen and none of them was aged over 55, meaning more research will be needed to investigate the vaccine’s efficacy in older people who are particularly susceptible to COVID-19.
Pooling the results, overall efficacy was 70.4 per cent, the data on Tuesday showed. That is above the 50 per cent minimum set by the US Food and…

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