Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Efficacy of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 lineages circulating in Brazil

  • Sue Ann Costa Clemens,
  • Pedro M. Folegatti,
  • Katherine R. W. Emary,
  • Lily Yin Weckx,
  • Jeremy Ratcliff,
  • Sagida Bibi,
  • Ana Verena De Almeida Mendes,
  • Eveline Pipolo Milan,
  • Ana Pittella,
  • Alexandre V. Schwarzbold,
  • Eduardo Sprinz,
  • Parvinder K. Aley,
  • David Bonsall,
  • Christophe Fraser,
  • Michelle Fuskova,
  • Sarah C. Gilbert,
  • Daniel Jenkin,
  • Sarah Kelly,
  • Simon Kerridge,
  • Teresa Lambe,
  • Natalie G. Marchevsky,
  • Yama F. Mujadidi,
  • Emma Plested,
  • Maheshi N. Ramasamy,
  • Peter Simmonds,
  • Tanya Golubchik,
  • Merryn Voysey,
  • Andrew J. Pollard,
  • the AMPHEUS Project,
  • Oxford COVID Vaccine Trial Team

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25982-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 raise concerns about vaccine efficiency. Here, the authors present a post-hoc analysis for the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine trial in Brazil and provide efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19 caused by the Zeta (P.2) and other variants.