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Originally Posted by Cherie

The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is safe and effective, giving good protection, researchers have confirmed in The Lancet journal.



Most in the study were younger than 55, but the results so far indicate it does work well in older people too.



The data also suggest it can reduce spread of Covid, as well as protect against illness and death.



The paper, assessed by independent scientists, sets out full results from advanced trials of over 20,000 people.



Regulators, who will have seen the same data, are considering the jab for emergency use.



But there are still important questions about what dose to give, as well as who it will protect.



When the interim trial results were made public in a press release about a fortnight ago, the researchers reported three efficacy levels for the vaccine - an overall effectiveness of 70%, a lower one of 62% and a high of 90%.



That's because different doses of the vaccine were used in one part of the trial. Some volunteers were given shots that were half the strength than originally planned.



Yet that "wrong" dose turned out to be a winner - giving 90% protection - while two standard doses gave 62%.



Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine 'dosing error' explained

The Lancet report reveals 1,367 people - out of many thousands in the trial - received the half dose followed by a full dose, which gave them 90% protection against getting ill with Covid-19.



The relatively small numbers in this group mean it is hard to draw firm conclusions.



None of that group were over the age of 55 though - and experts know it is older people who are most at risk of severe Covid illness.



In terms of safety, there was one severe adverse event potentially related to the vaccine and another one - a high temperature - that is still being investigated.



Both these participants are recovering and are still in the trial.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55228422

Nothing in that article is particularly reassuring ... at all .

Half dose followed by a full dose 21 days later ... both to be kept at below 70C ...


Whilst I appreciate our surgeons are brilliant I don’t quite as much faith in the over worked , often inexperienced nurses..

In one hospital stay I was nearly given a DOUBLE dose ( two injections ) of Warfarin - luckily I queried the second one !!

Whilst on another occasion an inexperienced nurse gave me EIGHT Piriton tablets with a glass of water ... luckily I knew to only take TWO ... but she didn’t !!

She’d mistakenly given me a whole days supply !!

This was ten years ago when the health service was NOT as stretched or underfunded.


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