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Coronavirus Notebook: UK ‘Com-Cov’ Trial To Test Alternating Vaccines, EMA Pilots Assessment Sharing Scheme

 
• By Ian Schofield

The director of the World Health Organization and the NGO, Médecins Sans Frontières, have both called for monopolies on COVID-19 products to be waived during the pandemic. And confounding critics, new analysis in The Lancet shows the Oxford/AZ vaccine works best with a 12-week dosing interval.

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The UK is preparing to conduct a clinical study looking at the effects of giving people a different coronavirus vaccine for their first and second dose, for example the Oxford University/AstraZeneca PLC vaccine followed by the Pfizer Inc./BioNTech SE jab, or vice-versa.

The government said that the study, the first of its kind in the world, was being undertaken to see whether a more flexible approach to vaccination was possible in view of the challenge of immunizing

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