Posted on 02/06/2021 9:07:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The AstraZeneca vaccine has been found to be mostly effective against the United Kingdom variant of the CCP virus, according to preliminary data published on Feb. 4.
The B.1.1.7 variant has been responsible for most CCP virus cases in the United Kingdom after it first emerged in the country last November. The variant has also been detected in the United States.
“Data from our trials of the ChAdOx1 vaccine in the United Kingdom indicate that the vaccine not only protects against the original pandemic virus but also protects against the novel variant, B.1.1.7, which caused the surge in disease from the end of 2020 across the UK,” Andrew Pollard, professor of pediatric infection and immunity and chief investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, said in a statement.
Oxford University is a co-developer of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which uses a modified chimpanzee common cold virus (adenovirus) to instruct the cells inside the body to produce the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus spike protein, activating an immune response.
The study (pdf), which hasn’t been peer-reviewed, found the vaccine provided 74.6 percent protection against symptomatic COVID-19 from the B.1.1.7 variant, and 84 percent protection against symptomatic disease from non-B.1.1.7 variants.
However, the “overall efficacy against the B.1.1.7 variant from all cases [symptomatic and asymptomatic or unknown infections] was 66.5 percent.”
Researchers examined genetic sequencing from 323 nasal or throat swabs of 256 participants who tested positive for COVID-19 after receiving a vaccine, in an ongoing phase 2/3 trial. But findings were based only on 120 of the 256 participants.
Sequencing allowed researchers to identify the participants who were infected with the B.1.1.7 variant versus those who were not.
The study also claimed that the AstraZeneca vaccine “results in a reduction in the duration of shedding and viral load.”
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