Efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Covid-19 Vaccine against the B.1.351 Variant
A double-blind randomized trial in South Africa documented poor efficacy of two doses of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine against the B.1.351 variant of SARS-CoV-2 that emerged in South Africa. Infections occurred in 3.2% of placebo recipients and in 2.5% of vaccine recipients. Thirty-nine of the 42 viru...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The New England journal of medicine 2021-05, Vol.384 (20), p.1885-1898 |
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Zusammenfassung: | A double-blind randomized trial in South Africa documented poor efficacy of two doses of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine against the B.1.351 variant of SARS-CoV-2 that emerged in South Africa. Infections occurred in 3.2% of placebo recipients and in 2.5% of vaccine recipients. Thirty-nine of the 42 virus isolates were the B.1.351 variant. None of the cases led to hospitalization or death. |
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ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJMoa2102214 |