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Everything the head of the Oxford vaccine project said about the jab at the coronavirus press conference

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at a Downing Street press conference this evening, the Oxford Vaccine Group director Professor Andrew Pollard today hailed it as "very exciting day" and said he hoped it "will be part of what could be the end of the problems we're facing." "Our results today show that in our primary analysis, that the vaccine had 70 percent efficacy, which is fantastic" he said."That's high efficacy like we get with flu vaccines and has the potential to have a really important impact on the pandemic."Because we also, in the trials, saw no one go into hospital with severe disease or develop severe disease if they had been vaccinated."We also had these intriguing results you will have heard reported today where one arm of our study had much higher efficacy,.

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