As­traZeneca/Ox­ford score first vote of con­fi­dence as UK au­tho­rizes their Covid-19 vac­cine

As­traZeneca and Ox­ford have land­ed the first au­tho­riza­tion for their Covid-19 vac­cine. And with this par­tic­u­lar shot, the UK may be much fur­ther ahead than the rest of the world.

The MHRA rec­om­mend­ed an emer­gency OK to the UK gov­ern­ment al­most two months af­ter it start­ed a rolling re­view — al­though the de­vel­op­ers on­ly sub­mit­ted the full ap­pli­ca­tion last week. Reg­u­la­tors have de­ter­mined that “the vac­cine has met its strict stan­dards of safe­ty, qual­i­ty and ef­fec­tive­ness,” ac­cord­ing to a state­ment, even though ex­perts in oth­er coun­tries have raised ques­tions.

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