Prognosis

Astra-Oxford Vaccine Works But Doses Could Be in Short Supply

  • Ramping up production has been a challenge for U.K. partners
  • World needs as many vaccines as it can get, Astra says

    

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Let the scramble for doses begin.

AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford followed Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc. in announcing that their Covid-19 vaccine appears to work. Though the U.K. partners’ data don’t look quite as sparkling, regulators could clear any of the shots for emergency use in coming weeks.