Britons overwhelmingly trust the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus jab despite concerns about blood clots, according to a Times poll that shows the vaccine programme is still on track.
Healthy under-30s are being advised to have alternative vaccines after regulators said there was a “strong possibility” that the Oxford vaccine had caused fatal clots.
However, ministers and government scientists have begun a campaign to retain public confidence, highlighting that the type of clot involved is “vanishingly rare”.
The poll by YouGov, carried out after the change in the official guidance on Wednesday, found 75 per cent of people considered the Oxford vaccine safe — down only two percentage points since March. The level of public confidence was similar to that for the PfizerBioNTech vaccine, which was considered
