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AstraZeneca May Have Used “Outdated Information” on Efficacy in US Trial

by Michael Curzon
23 March 2021 9:28 AM

Results from a US trial of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine may have used “outdated information” on its efficacy, according to a US health agency. Reuters has the story.

The concerns throw into question whether the British drugmaker can seek US emergency use authorisation for the vaccine in the coming weeks as planned, and come just one day after interim data from the trial had shown better-than-expected results.

The vaccine developed with Oxford University was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic illness in the large trial that also took place in Chile and Peru, according to the data. It was also 100% effective against severe or critical forms of the disease and hospitalisation and posed no increased risk of blood clots.

The Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), an independent committee overseeing the trial, has “expressed concern that AstraZeneca may have included outdated information from that trial, which may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy data”, the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said in a statement.

“We urge the company to work with the DSMB to review the efficacy data and ensure the most accurate, up-to-date efficacy data be made public as quickly as possible,” it said, adding that the DSMB had informed AstraZeneca of its concerns.

The NIAID did not specify what outdated information AstraZeneca relied on from its trial. In Europe, the AZ Covid vaccine has been at the centre of fears relating to side effects from the jab, such as blood clots. This latest development in the US could, if found to be true, see the country refusing to grant emergency use authorisation as planned.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: AstraZeneca has responded to concerns over its vaccine from the DSMB, saying that the numbers it published yesterday were “pre-specified” and that more detailed information would be sent to US health officials within 48 hours.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
1 year ago

Yeah, but they didn’t kill Granny!

Because they didn’t meet up in school they couldn’t spread the Plague among themselves and then take it home and kill the rest of their families. Of course, being avidly engaged in Home Learning none of them were out making nuisances of themselves in public or finding other opportunities to meet and spread the Plague. /s

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
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I think the state did a good job of killing off Granny without the help or family members spreading a virus. If this virus exists considering if you amplify the PCR enough you could find anything, maybe even traces of the Black Death!

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
1 year ago
Reply to  soundofreason

Granny could have taken Vit.D, Zinc, HCQ, and/or Ivermectin, but they were verboten.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago

I know enough people have pointed this out but why are people who write these blogs referring to a “pandemic”…..Even if it exists it was the countermeasures that are the cause of the economic, social etc problems. Or at least put it in quote marks, pseudo or ‘plan’ in front of it.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
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Thanks for saving me the trouble. Language matters.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
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Scamdemic.

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kev
kev
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

In an otherwise useful article, that jumped out at me also, stop feeding their narrative.

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago

The terrible learning loss was part of the Globalist plan, as American Patriot Charlotte Iserbyt discovered and exposed after working as senior policy advisor for years in the education department of the US government, and later working in the State Department. She wrote about it in her book “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America”. She said the motto was “Target the Resisters”.
Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

The “New Feudal Order” needs the serfs to be uneducated, as they were in the good old Mediaeval days of Lords & Serfs, without a pesky middle class to interfere.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago

A terrible situation you can take hold of these children and try and bring them up to scratch but the emotional damage has already been done.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

Dumbing down the children is essential if they are to swallow the utter bullshit that is Nut Zero. And Nut Zero is probably going to be the biggest game in town for the next fifty years.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

It’s like Inflation, the effects are accumulative.

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