Coronavirus: 'Small chance' COVID jab will be ready before Christmas, Oxford vaccine boss says

The director of the Oxford vaccine trial has said there is a 'small chance' a jab will be ready before Christmas. Vaccine trial chief investigator Andrew Pollard told the Science and Technology Committee he is 'optimistic' the University of Oxford trial could present late-stage results, possibly revealing whether it works, before the end of the year. Asked if the vaccine would be ready by Christmas, he said: 'There is a small chance of that being possible but I just don't know. 'Our trials are only one of many that are going on around the world, a number of which may well report before the end of the year.'