COVID-19 vaccines might offer protection against severe disease even as coronavirus variants evolve to better allow continued transmission between people, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group Andrew Pollard said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - COVID-19 vaccines might offer protection against severe disease even as coronavirus variants evolve to better allow continued transmission between people, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group Andrew Pollard said on Wednesday.
Asked how effective the Oxford/AstraZeneca will be against new variants, he said they are making changes that allow them to avoid human immune responses, so that they can still transmit. So, that does mean that it s likely over time that the virus will find ways of adapting so that can continue to pass between people, he told BBC TV.
A scientist who led the development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on Friday warned Australia against delaying its rollout.The Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology recently called on the Canberra government to pause its .
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