First Generation COVID Vaccines

UK’s COVID Vaccination Plan : The When, How, and Where To Get the Vaccine

Britain’s NHS has begun the biggest mass vaccination campaign in its history to protect people against Covid-19 and as the vaccination drives proceeds further BBC analysed how candidates are chosen, informing when people are eligible for the vaccine. 

Here’s a report from that analysis. 

The Approved Vaccines

So far, three vaccines have been approved for use in the UK.

More than 1.5 million people in the UK have now been vaccinated – the large majority with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which was...

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‘Mix-and-match’ Coronavirus Vaccines to be Tested

Mix Jab of Oxford-Pfizer Vaccine for Better COVID Immune Response

According to a BBC report, UK scientists are planning trials to see if giving people two different types of Covid vaccine, one after the other, might give better protection than two doses of one jab.

This mix-and-match approach can go ahead only if another jab is approved by regulators, as has already happened with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

The head of the UK’s vaccine task force said trial designs were being prepared.

The First...

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Search for Potent COVID Vaccine Continues Amid Second Lockdown

  • One, out of the 200 COVID vaccines under development, will hopefully be available in the first part of next year.
  • Johnson’s government regards the emergence of a vaccine, as well as the development of treatments, as the best way to avoid future lockdowns.
  • Ministers have said care home residents and workers will be first in line to receive a vaccine, followed by people aged 80 and over.

Doctors in England have been put on standby for the possible roll-out of a coronavirus vaccine before...

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‘Imperfect Vaccines’ To Make Early COVID Vaccines Less Impactful

According to a Reuters report, the woman in charge of procuring possible COVID-19 treatments for Britain said a fully effective vaccine might never be developed, and that any early versions that do get approved might not work at all for some people.

No Time for Complacency

There is no clinically proven vaccine against the coronavirus, though nearly 200 candidates are in development worldwide, and late-stage trial results are expected for the first of them by the end of 2020.

“However, we do not...

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