Selected article for: "efficacy trial and vaccine trial"

Author: Pawelec, Graham; McElhaney, Janet
Title: Unanticipated efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in older adults
  • Cord-id: n216kwf8
  • Document date: 2021_2_17
  • ID: n216kwf8
    Snippet: The rapidity with which vaccines against COVID-19 have been developed and tested is unprecedented. As classically the case with randomized clinical trials, many studies excluded older adults. However, given the early realisation that senior citizens were most highly susceptible to COVID, older individuals have been included in licensing trials under these unusual conditions. The recently published results from the Comirnaty Vaccine (BNT162b) trial unexpectedly documented that vaccine efficacy wa
    Document: The rapidity with which vaccines against COVID-19 have been developed and tested is unprecedented. As classically the case with randomized clinical trials, many studies excluded older adults. However, given the early realisation that senior citizens were most highly susceptible to COVID, older individuals have been included in licensing trials under these unusual conditions. The recently published results from the Comirnaty Vaccine (BNT162b) trial unexpectedly documented that vaccine efficacy was equally exceptionally high in older and younger adults. These extremely encouraging trial results with a neoantigen vaccine may suggest the beginning of a paradigm shift in our view of the impact of immunosenescence on vaccination against novel infectious diseases.

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