Another New Vaccine - Single Dose This Time

[sunny-dave]

Worth reading all of this, rather than the garbled headlines produced by sundry scientifically-illiterate journalists. It really is a very encouraging report :

https://www.jnj.com/johnson-johnson-announces-single-shot-janssen-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-met-primary-endpoints-in-interim-analysis-of-its-phase-3-ensemble-trial

In particular I think that this is very good news :

" Efficacy against severe disease increased over time with no (severe) cases in vaccinated participants reported after day 49 "

[sunny-dave]

I think the EMA, and hence the EU, have been lamentably slow and bureaucratic about vaccine approval - but that's no excuse for Astra stiffing them on contracted deliveries

[bednobs]

surely though, in order to complain about it the EU has to have clean hands - I see they have instituted an export restriction on vaccines made in the EU. Isnt that exactly what is being complained about (but in the other direction)?

[tiggerblue10]

Hope this eases the minds of the Germans for the over 65s now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55862233

[ichkeria]

I thought what they were complaining about was that AZ had failed to deliver.
Not really an export licence thing.