Current vaccines These days, though, we can do it better and at even less risk. We have the adenovector vaccines (like Oxford/Astrazeneca, or the Johnson & Johnson, or the Sputnik) which take a c… (View Post)

Summary So, that’s what’s in them and how they work. In the Oxford/Astrazeneca one, it’s that adenovector, in lipids (fats, basically) with a couple of amino acids, sucrose (literally sugar), sodium … (View Post)

Unfortunately, this takes time, so the ideal way of doing things just written is very rarely going to happen, unless you are lucky enough to have had a very good adaptive immunity, or had the right h… (View Post)

Oh, and having witnessed all this, Novavax, who, like others, are going through the growing pains of massive scale-up of production, have refrained from signing their contract with the EU on the grou… (View Post)

The UK authorise ChAdOx1 first. Due to the biological processes taking longer than expected, the first 20 million doses by Q4 2020 do not materialise. Instead, we get 0.5 million. Despite this, the G… (View Post)