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