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Oxford coronavirus vaccine seems to produce an immune response in people over 55
28 October 2020
Oxford coronavirus vaccine seems to produce an immune response in people over 55
The University of Oxford coronavirus vaccine candidate has been found to produce an immune response in people over the age of 55.
The results are encouraging because older people are at an increased risk of becoming severely ill and dying from covid-19, partly because the immune system weakens with age.
The finding, which has not yet been published, builds on results from July which found that the vaccine also produces an immune response in younger adults, aged between 18 and 55.
The vaccine candidate is being developed by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in partnership with the University of Oxford.
"It is encouraging to see immunogenicity responses were similar between older and younger adults," an AstraZeneca spokesperson told CNBC today