One dose of Pfizer or Oxford jab reduces Covid infection rate by 65% – study
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#5GYRV)
Analysis of test results from more than 350,000 people finds older people just as protected as younger
One shot of the Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine reduces coronavirus infections by nearly two-thirds and protects older and more vulnerable people as much as younger, healthy individuals, a study has found.
The results from Oxford University and the Office for National Statistics are a welcome boost to the vaccination programme and the first to show the impact on new infections and immune responses in a large group of adults in the general population.
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