Phase 3 Safety and Efficacy of AZD1222 (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) Covid-19 Vaccine

Ann R Falsey1, Magdalena E Sobieszczyk1, Ian Hirsch1

  • 1From the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (A.R.F., M.C.K.) and Rochester Regional Health (A.R.F.), Rochester, and Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases (M.E.S.) and the New York University Vaccine Center (M.J.M.), New York - all in New York; Biometrics (I.H.) and Infectious Diseases (J.A.G.), Late-Stage Development, Respiratory and Immunology (R.P.M.), Biopharmaceuticals Research and Development (M.N.P.), AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Biometrics (S.S., K.S.) and Infectious Diseases, Late-Stage Development, Respiratory and Immunology (J.M., T. Takas, T.V., A.G.-L.), Translational Medicine, Microbial Sciences, Biopharmaceuticals Research and Development (E.J.K.), and Clinical Development, Early Global Development, Oncology Research and Development (N.M.), AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring (M.L.R.), the University of Maryland School of Medicine (K.M.N.) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (A.D.), Baltimore, the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense, Edgewood (J.C.), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (T. Tong, M.B.I., M.C.N.) - all in Maryland; the University of Washington (L.C., W.H.) and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (L.C., W.H., J.H., H.E.J.), Seattle; HealthPartners Institute, St. Paul, MN (C.M.); Orlando Immunology Center, Orlando (E.D.), and JEM Headlands Research, Lake Worth Beach (L.B.) - both in Florida; Hassman Research Institute, Berlin, NJ (M.H.); the University of California San Diego, La Jolla (S.J.L.), the Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance (E.S.D.), and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco (S.B.) - all in California; Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, MO (B.A.P.); Tekton Research, Austin (P.P.), and Centex Studies, McAllen (J.S.) - both in Texas; Medpharmics, Albuquerque, NM (Q.O.C.); John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago (T.O.); Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (S.L.V.); Clínica Internacional Sede Lima, Lima, Peru (A.G.B.); Clinical Research Partners, Richmond, VA (R.C.); the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine and UVM Medical Center, Burlington (B.D.K.); Mercury Street Medical Group, Butte, MT (J.P.); and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta (D.B.).

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