RMIT University The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is the second COVID shot to be approved in Australia, and it s likely Australians will start receiving it next month. By mid-January, only about a quarter of the COVID-19 vaccines distributed for U.S. nursing homes through the federal program had reached people’s arms. Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Januari 14, 2021
A COVID-19 vaccine trialled in Bradford appears to offer strong protection in late-stage clinical trials, it has been announced, with the spectacular results hailed. The city was one of only two in Yorkshire to host the Novavax trial and UK phase three trials of the vaccine have found it to be 89.3 per cent effective in preventing coronavirus in participants The research was delivered at the University of Bradford’s Digital Health Enterprise Zone (DHEZ) building, with Consultant Respiratory Physician Professor Dinesh Saralaya leading the study. Prof Saralaya said he was absolutely delighted at the news, while Prof John Wright, director of the Bradford Institute for Health Research said: A big, big thank you to 700 brave Bradfordians (and 14k UK volunteers) You made this.
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IN the first of a series of profiles of honorary professors of the University of Bradford, we look at the work of Professor Dinesh Saralaya, who is putting Bradford on the big pharma map and giving the district a health check Prof Saralaya recalls that when he was young, despite the family being Hindu, his mother sent him to a Catholic school in Madras (now known as Chennai), essentially to broaden his horizons. The Consultant Respiratory Physician at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has certainly done that. He is director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) patient recruitment centre in Bradford.