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numberwang said:

It failed in animal trials anyway.

"There was no difference in the amount of viral RNA detected from this site in the vaccinated monkeys as compared to the unvaccinated animals. Which is to say, all vaccinated animals were infected"
Doubts over Oxford vaccine as it fails to stop coronavirus in animal trials

Curious how the media chose to present it when the title of the scientific article was something entirely different.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.093195v1

Sterilizing immunity is not protective immunity. This is anything but a failure: true failure in vaccination yields spectacularly bad results such as making a mild disease outright kill you, making you vulnerable to something else, outright infecting you with a poorly inactivated vector, etc.