More evidence is emerging that the Oxford Covid vaccine works in older people, according to vaccine experts in the UK. European leaders have ruffled the vaccine-maker's feathers in recent weeks by claiming the vaccine doesn't work on older people and refusing to use it. And the team behind the ground-breaking vaccine said the idea that it didn't work had 'no basis'. The confidence interval suggests that scientists thought the true effectiveness of the vaccine in over-65s was somewhere between -1,405% and 94.5%. The Oxford study published today put those fears to bed and said: 'Vaccine efficacy against symptomatic positive infection was similar for B.1.1.7 and non-B1.1.7 lineages.'

Source: Daily Mail February 05, 2021 17:52 UTC