Good Morning Britain 's Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid discussed on Wednesday's show a new study that suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine may reduce transmission of the virus by up to 67%.
Professor Andrew Pollard, director of the the Oxford vaccine group, appeared on the show via a rather glitchy video link. Susanna said: "We want the vaccines to limit the effect of Covid on patients suffering, but we seem to have new information from your trials that they may help to stop transmitting Covid as well, tell us how important this news is?" Professor Pollard explained: "This is a pre-print that went up yesterday and it has not been peer-reviewed yet, is that the point at which we give the first dose, and there was controversy over