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Category: Oxford University vaccine ChAdOx1 nCoV-19

Posted on December 11, 2021December 11, 2021

Mechanism of blood clots after Oxford vaccine administration found

Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome is a very rare serious adverse effects following vaccination using chimpanzee adenovirus Y25 (ChAdOx1), human adenovirus type 26 (HAdV-D26), and human adenovirus type 5 (HAdV-C5). In…

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Posted on May 23, 2021

Serum’s supply to COVAX hit by India’s poor vaccination planning

On August 7, a week before Mr. Modi’s announcement, the Pune-based Serum Institute signed an agreement with GAVI and Gates Foundation to manufacture and deliver up to 100 million doses…

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Posted on April 24, 2021April 24, 2021

Serum refuses to address differential pricing for Central and State governments

The statement tried to address the controversy over whether the price of the vaccines at Rs 600 (nearly $8) per dose for private hospitals was more than their costs when they were…

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Posted on March 13, 2021

Will adenovirus antibodies reduce the efficacy of vector vaccines?

While it is unclear if pre-existing antibodies to adenovirus vector will affect vaccine efficacy, it is possible that repeated vaccination using adenovirus-based vaccine either as a booster or as annual vaccination, if the need arises, will result in reduced efficacy due to vector immunity.

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Posted on February 5, 2021February 6, 2021

Oxford vaccine is protective against the U.K. variant, preprint says

The results were posted in a preprint server. Preprints are yet to be peer-reviewed and published in scientific journals. No studies were carried out to examine the efficacy of the…

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Posted on February 3, 2021February 3, 2021

Updated efficacy results underline the benefits of delaying second dose of Oxford vaccine

The data in the preprint show that vaccine efficacy was high when the interval between the two doses was two months and continued to increase with a longer dose interval.…

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Posted on January 30, 2021February 1, 2021

Reneging on the ‘no-profit pledge’ to supply Oxford vaccine

On the say day the release was sent out announcing the partnership with AstraZeneca, Oxford University also tweeted saying that the vaccine will be manufactured and distributed “on a not-for-profit basis…

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Posted on January 13, 2021

Serious violations in Covaxin trial in Bhopal show nothing has changed since the egregious HPV vaccine trial

The phase-3 clinical trial of Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, by a private hospital in the Bhopal-based Peoples College of Medical Sciences & Research Centre appears to suffer from serious…

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