South Africa halted the rollout of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccinations after data showed it gave minimal protection

[Moses]

Researchers from the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Oxford said in a prior-to-peer analysis that the AstraZeneca vaccine provided minimal protection against mild or moderate infection from the so-called South African variant among young people.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN2A80ME

P.S. Britain said the shot still stopped death and serious illness.

[StevieWonders]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN2A80ME

P.S. Britain said the shot still stopped death and serious illness.

https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showt...to-begin/page7

[goji]

Protection against other variants AND protection against severe illness would be worth having in my view.
Also, if they already have a stock of the vaccines, are they just going to scrap them ? Makes no sense to me.

Finally, I believe both the Oxford and Sputnik vaccines are similar in concept, as they both lash a Coronavirus protein spike onto an adenovirus. Obviously the detail matters, but will Sputnik have similar results ?