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View all search resultsIn a recent legal defense against a class action lawsuit, British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca admitted that its vaccine can "in very rare cases, cause TTS", while acknowledging that the causal mechanism was yet known.
The decision underscores challenges many developing countries face in their slow inoculation campaigns, as vaccines donated by wealthy countries arrive with a relatively short shelf life of just a few months or even weeks.
Phase-three clinical trials conducted by AstraZeneca suggest that a single dose of the antibody combination AZD7442 (commercially called Evusheld) is 83 percent effective at preventing severe COVID-19 in people over the age of 18 and could offer protection more than six months after administration.
The company said on Friday that 75 percent of the participants in the trial for the therapy - two types of antibodies discovered by Vanderbilt University Medical Center - had chronic conditions including some with a lower immune response to vaccinations.
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