// "You've taken two studies for which different doses were used and come up with a composite that doesn't represent either of the doses," he said of the figure. "I think many people are having trouble with that." //
- David Salisbury, an associate fellow of the global health programme at the Chatham House think tank.
The mistake which resulted in the much better results were a smaller sample (about a quarter), and the sample were younger people who respond to treatments much better than the elderly.
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AstraZeneca is a merger of the old ICI and a Swedish company. Scientists worldwide are sceptical of how the results have been presented. That is not anti-British. We will just have to wait and see if the AZ vaccine is effective and a commercial success.
Here is the Daily Torygraph being anti-British
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/26/manufacturing-error-clouds-oxfords-covid-19-vaccine-study-results/