Oxford team "delighted" as trials show COVID vaccine works well in older adults.......
Source: CBS News
Oxford team "delighted" as trials show COVID vaccine works well in older adults, but they're "not in a rush"
Oxford, England — The most recent data from human trials shows the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Oxford University and British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is safe, and most importantly, it works well in the most vulnerable set of patients.
Peer-reviewed evidence published in The Lancet medical journal on Thursday shows the Oxford vaccine not only triggers the robust immune response they'd hoped for but packs a powerful punch where it's needed most: in older adults.
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For the analysis published on Thursday, outside researchers scrutinized Oxford's Phase 2 study involving 560 adults, including 240 people over the age of 70. That group is known to be at significantly higher risk of severe disease and death with the coronavirus — they're the patients most likely to fill over-stretched ICU hospital wards, and they've been earmarked to receive the vaccine first.
"The robust antibody and T-cell responses seen in older people in our study are encouraging," said Oxford University's Dr. Maheshi Ramasamy, the co-author of The Lancet study. "We hope that this means our vaccine will help to protect some of the most vulnerable people in society, but further research will be needed before we can be sure."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-oxford-astrazeneca-team-delighted-coronavirus-trials-effective-older-adults/
They should be done with phase 3 trials in a few weeks.
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