Real World Data on COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy ‘Extremely Encouraging’

New Dosing Options And Populations Are Being Investigated

The effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines in preventing infection and symptomatic COVID-19 disease was explored at a virtual meeting held by the European Medicines Agency.

 COVID 19 Vaccine approved and launched in European Union.
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It is difficult to make direct comparisons between the effectiveness of the different COVID-19 vaccines as they have been tested in very different geographies and patient populations, at different points of time and against different virus variants, says Marco Cavaleri, head of biological health threats and vaccines at the European Medicines Agency.

Moreover, despite the “considerable size” of clinical studies that have been conducted with the vaccines, there are only limited trial...

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