RUSHES: Coronavirus: Professor Jonathan Van-Tam interview

Coronavirus: Professor Jonathan Van-Tam interview; ENGLAND: INT Jonathan Van-Tam (Deputy Chief Medical Officer) interview via internet SOT. - This is a very big deal it's great news I'll give you several reason why But first I want to congratulate Oxford Uni and the AZ team for the endeavours they've made And the volunteers that have taken part in these trials Without volunteers we don't get the type of results we have today, so thanks to them all This is very good news at a kind of strategic levels It's the this goal in the back of the net now in my penalty shootout - It's the third vaccine with a positive readout It really makes it highly likely that in the months that follow we're going to have an in covid vaccine preventable diseases The results today are interim, they're based on more than 24k volunteers with just under 12k got the vaccine itself The official headline if you put all the studies around the world together is that we have a 70% vaccine effectiveness This conceals some details that there are a 2 doses in the results all together For a dose which involved a half then full dose 28 days later the read out is 92% The research which shoes two full doses as 62% effective There are some biologicals reasons, this isn't of concern to me - What's more important that this is the first signal from a vaccine trial we've had about hospital admissions In the totality of the AZ date, there were no hospital admissions due to COVID at all in the patients that received either vaccine regiments It's hospitalisations which give us the issues then the deaths that follow. It's very good news indeed We need a bit more science work around the doses that I've mentioned Never the less, I'm sure we will get there. On top of the hospital admissions statement, there are many other good reasons to say this is something new It's the first UK available vaccine which we can handle all the way through at 2-8 degrees which mea...