Pouwels, Koen B. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7097-8950
Pritchard, Emma
Matthews, Philippa C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4036-4269
Stoesser, Nicole http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4508-7969
Eyre, David W.
Vihta, Karina-Doris http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4111-7577
House, Thomas http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5835-8062
Hay, Jodie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2000-2578
Bell, John I.
Newton, John N.
Farrar, Jeremy
Crook, Derrick
Cook, Duncan
Rourke, Emma
Studley, Ruth
Peto, Tim E. A.
Diamond, Ian
Walker, A. Sarah
Article History
Received: 18 August 2021
Accepted: 21 September 2021
First Online: 14 October 2021
Competing interests
: All authors have completed the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors uniform disclosure form atExternalRef removed. D.W.E. declares lecture fees from Gilead, outside the submitted work. E.P., P.C.M., N.S., D.W.E., J.I.B., D.C., T.E.A.P., A.S.W. and K.B.P. are employees of the University of Oxford but were not involved in the development or production of the vaccine. J.I.B. acts as an unpaid advisor to Her Majesty’s Government on COVID but does not sit on the vaccine task force and is not involved in procurement decisions. J.I.B. also sits on the Board of the Oxford Sciences Innovation, which has an investment in Vaccitech, which has a royalty from the ChAdOx1 vaccine when, if ever, it makes a profit. A.S.W., in addition to the funding mentioned above, received grants from the Medical Research Council UK during the conduct of the study. P.C.M. received funding from the Wellcome Trust. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.