{"id":1776,"date":"2020-11-23T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2020-11-23T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:53:20","slug":"astra-zeneca-and-oxford-declare-their-covid-19-vaccine-is-up-to-90-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"Astra Zeneca and Oxford declare their COVID-19 vaccine is up to 90% effective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

U.K.-based pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and England’s University of Oxford announced Monday<\/a> that late-stage trials show their COVID-19 vaccine was up to 90% effective in preventing the disease. \u00a0The determination comes from an interim analysis of their phase 3 trials in the U.K. and in Brazil, which involved two different dosing regimens.\u00a0 One regimen demonstrated 90% efficacy when the vaccine was given as a half dose, followed by a full dose at least a month later. \u00a0A second regimen showed 62% efficacy when the vaccine was administered as two full doses at least one month apart. The combined analysis from both dosing regimens showed an average efficacy of 70%, according to AstraZeneca and Oxford.

There were a total of 131 COVID-19 cases in the analysis, with no hospitalizations or severe cases of the disease reported in participants receiving the vaccine candidate, according to the statement from Oxford-Astra Zeneca.\u00a0 The team was an early COVID-19 vaccine development frontrunner but it has since been outpaced by Moderna and Pfizer\/BioNTech, both of which announced their phase 3 trial results in the last two weeks, with planned widespread distribution in the coming months, pending FDA emergency use authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.K.-based pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and England’s University of Oxford announced Monday that late-stage trials show their COVID-19 vaccine was up to 90% effective in preventing the disease. \u00a0The determination comes from an interim analysis of their phase 3 trials in the U.K. and in Brazil, which involved two different dosing regimens.\u00a0 One regimen demonstrated 90% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/e88d507e-5b56-4746-8129-aa83afa83657.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}