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Apparently AstraZeneca Vacine does not protect against African strain of Covid19 Virus
by basicplus2 6y ago
Apparently AstraZeneca Vacine does not protect against African strain of Covid19 Virus
- m0llusk 6y agoIt would be more accurate to say that currently limited findings show that all of the available vaccines have greatly reduced effectiveness against the South African variant. Given the scale of this tragedy a vaccine that has limited effect could still save a great many lives and also slow the spread.
- LeoNatan25 6y agoThat’s no longer accurate information. Pfizer’s vaccine has been found to be 88% effective against the SA variant.
- nibsfive 6y agoFalse. It prevents 50% of cases, 83% of medical intervention and 100% of hospitalizations. Halting it is delusional perfectionism.
- klmadfejno 6y ago> In the AstraZeneca-Oxford trial in South Africa, roughly 2,000 participants were given either two doses of the vaccine or placebo shots. > There was virtually no difference in the numbers of people in the vaccine and placebo groups who were infected with B.1.351, suggesting that the vaccine did little to protect against the new variant. Nineteen of the 748 people in the group that was given the vaccine were infected with the new variant, compared to 20 out of 714 people in the group that was given a placebo. > That equates to a vaccine efficacy of 10 percent, though the scientists did not have enough statistical confidence to know for sure whether that figure would hold among more people.
- nibsfive 6y agohttps://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2021/covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-confirms-protection-against-severe-disease-hospitalisation-and-death-in-the-primary-analysis-of-phase-iii-trials.html https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2021...
- in_cahoots 6y agoWas this tested against the new variant?