With thousands of AstraZeneca shots set to expire in the coming months, a bioethicist at the University of Toronto said wasting COVID-19 vaccines is unethical.
Brazil announced the suspension of the vaccination of pregnant women with the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine after an expectant mother died upon receiving the jab.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday granted an emergency authorization to the COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, giving additional hope that the end of the global pandemic could be in sight.
Children as young as six-years-old will be tested with the COVID-19 vaccine, with the University of Oxford launching a new clinical study to review the safety of its vaccine with AstraZeneca in children for the first time.
British drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Saturday that its vaccine candidate being developed in partnership with the University of Oxford appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused by the South African variant of COVID-19.
COVID-19 vaccine makers AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have announced that they will resume their paused coronavirus vaccine trials in the United States.