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Pharma Tech Outlook | Monday, December 06, 2021
The new vaccine AstraZeneca COVID-19 is estimated to give better and long-lasting immunity to help shield against Europe's latest deadly wave of the virus says the company's chief executive, although this vaccine is yet to be approved in the United States.
FREMONT, CA: The new vaccine AstraZeneca COVID-19 is estimated to give better and long-lasting immunity to help shield against Europe's latest deadly wave of the virus says the company's chief executive, although this vaccine is yet to be approved in the United States. Currently, continental Europe and Britain are suffering from the brutal fourth wave of the pandemic. The decision by most EU nations to restrict the AstraZeneca jab early in the year and the delay in delivering the vaccine to older people could cost highly in terms of increasing cases says Pascal Soriot, chief executive of the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker.
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After vaccinating the AstraZeneca's jab in older people in the UK, the results showed that this vaccine - which uses a traditional vaccine technology- produced a greater T-cell response in older people when compared to the new MRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna. Despite the recent studies suggesting the AZ vaccine provides longer protection against severe diseases in older people, only 67 million doses are distributed across the continent when compared to 440 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech jab. In the recent November 2 release, the AstraZeneca vaccine has still not been approved by the FDA in the United States. However, the drugmaker hopes to gain approval to use AstraZeneca in the US by July 2021. This timeline could delay as the FDA found the company's initial trial results unsatisfactory as it did not include enough people over 55.
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