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Single-dose administration and the influence of the timing of the booster dose on immunogenicity and efficacy of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine: a pooled analysis of four randomised trials.

Merryn Voysey, +766 more
- 06 Mar 2021 - 
- Vol. 397, Iss: 10277, pp 881-891
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The ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine has been approved for emergency use by the UK regulatory authority, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, with a regimen of two standard doses given with an interval of 4-12 weeks as discussed by the authors.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2021-03-06 and is currently open access. It has received 862 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Booster dose & Vaccine efficacy.

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Overview of the Main Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines: Mechanism of Action, Efficacy and Safety

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the principal vaccines developed against the SARS-CoV-2 in this unprecedented period of Covid-19 pandemic is presented, where the authors evaluated the mechanism of action of each vaccine as well as the efficacy, the safety and the storage temperature.
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Vaccine effectiveness of the first dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and BNT162b2 against SARS-CoV-2 infection in residents of long-term care facilities in England (VIVALDI): a prospective cohort study.

TL;DR: The VIVALDI study as discussed by the authors investigated the effect of the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca non-replicating viral-vectored vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19; AZD1222) and the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA-based vaccine (BNT162b2) in terms of PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV2 infection over time since vaccination.
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Risk of infection, hospitalisation, and death up to 9 months after a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine: a retrospective, total population cohort study in Sweden

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination against the risk of infection, hospitalisation, and death during the first 9 months after vaccination for the total population of Sweden.
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Adenoviral vector vaccine platforms in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

TL;DR: Adenoviral vectors have been explored as vaccine agents for a range of infectious diseases, and their ability to induce a potent and balanced immune response made them logical candidates to apply to the COVID-19 pandemic as discussed by the authors.
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Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK.

Merryn Voysey, +81 more
- 09 Jan 2021 - 
TL;DR: ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 has an acceptable safety profile and has been found to be efficacious against symptomatic COVID-19 in this interim analysis of ongoing clinical trials.
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Safety and immunogenicity of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine administered in a prime-boost regimen in young and old adults (COV002): a single-blind, randomised, controlled, phase 2/3 trial.

TL;DR: The specific objectives of this report were to assess the safety and humoral and cellular immunogenicity of a single-dose and two-dose schedule in adults older than 55 years, and safety, as measured by the occurrence of serious adverse events.
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