Pfizer’s vaccine seems to offer good protection against the South African variant of COVID-19, while British data has given AstraZeneca a lift, in positive news for Australia’s vaccine mix
Australia’s coronavirus vaccine strategy has received a boost with evidence showing Pfizer’s vaccine offers good protection against COVID-19’s new variants.
Nurse Sioban Cheesman gives Angela Massie her AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Perth earlier this month.“It’s really good news,” said Associate Professor James Wood, a leading vaccine expert at the University of NSW. The variant of COVID-19 first seen in South Africa, known as B.1.351, has a collection of mutations that appear toConcern about that variant reached fever pitch when researchers published a study in March suggesting AstraZeneca’s vaccine
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