Coronavirus
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine Has ‘No Increased Risk’ of Blood Clots According to a U.S. Trial
LONDON — The findings of a large U.S. trial have shown that the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is 79% effective in preventing symptomatic illness and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalization.
The safety and efficacy analysis of the AstraZeneca vaccine, published Monday, was based on 32,449 participants across 88 trial centers in the U.S., Peru, and Chile.
Data from the late-stage human trial study reaffirms that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and highly effective.
By comparison, Moderna’s vaccine has been found to be more than 94% effective in preventing Covid and Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine was found to be 95% effective.
