Corona 19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca. Newsis material photo
AstraZeneca, who is about to approve the emergency use of the vaccine for the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) by UK health authorities, assured the success of the vaccine. It also added that the so-called’formula of success’ was found.
Pascal Sorio AstraZeneca, CEO of AstraZeneca, told the Sunday Times Sunday edition of The Times in the UK on the 27th (local time): Said. He emphasized that “100% of the infection can be prevented”, which is serious enough to require hospitalization. However, the specific method of administration or dosage was not disclosed. The reason is that “we can’t tell in detail because we will release a vaccine at some point.”
The reason why CEO Sorio emphasized the’success formula’ is that the immunity effect was different depending on the dosage as a result of an interim analysis of the corona 19 vaccine jointly developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. When the full dose of the vaccine was administered twice, the prevention rate was only 62.1%, but when the first half dose was administered and the second full dose, the prevention rate rose sharply to 90.0%. The stock price also fell 3.8% due to differences in efficacy depending on the dosage.
In this regard, CEO Sorio admitted that he was “surprised” when he first discovered that the immune effects were different depending on the dose of the vaccine, and “I was sure that people could be a little disappointed.” “Of course, I wish the results were simpler, but because they met the standards set by regulatory authorities around the world, I evaluated them positively,” he added. “I didn’t expect a storm to hit.”
The Korean government has already signed a vaccine contract with AstraZeneca for 20 million doses. It is reported that the UK Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) is deliberating for approval of the emergency use of the AstraZeneca vaccine even during the Christmas holidays. The British Daily Telegraph reported on the previous day that the approval of emergency use could be announced as early as the day.
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