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Effectiveness of First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccines Against Hospital Admissions in Scotland

March 1, 2021
|In Show all, COVID-19, External News
|By Alice Black

A recent study in Scotland has investigated the effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA (Pfizer-BioNTech) and ChAdOx1 (Oxford-AstraZeneca) COVID-19 vaccines in preventing hospital admissions.

The study across approximately 99% of Scotland’s population (5.4 million people) found that a single dose of either vaccine resulted in significant reductions in COVID-19 related hospitalisations.

Read more via the link below:

Preprints with The Lancet: Effectiveness of First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccines Against Hospital Admissions in Scotland: National Prospective Cohort Study of 5.4 Million People

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