ASTRAZENECA and Oxford have started work on a Covid jab designed to bust the Omicron strain responsible for a massive rise in cases. Top scientists are in the early stages of creating an “upd…
He stressed the same work was carried out for other strains, adding: "Adenovirus-based vaccines [such as that made by Oxford/AstraZeneca] could in principle be used to respond to any new variant more rapidly than some may previously have realised.
Top docs measured the antibody response of volunteers who had previously tested positive for the Delta strain.was introduced to the blood, just one in seven people made enough antibodies to attack and neutralise it. The Medical University of Innsbruck study - which did not take into account T cell and B cell immunity due to them being difficult to measure - did say that having had the Delta strain and being double jabbed makes Brits "super immune".
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