There were three cases of transverse myelitis—a condition where there is spinal cord inflammation—in people who received the vaccine. There are two tiers of local government covering Oxford, at district and county level: Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council. This group will assess how well the vaccine works to prevent people from becoming infected and unwell with COVID-19. It is one of the most diverse yet compact major collections of plants in the world and includes representatives of over 90% of the higher plant families.

As such, its collection is growing at a rate of over three miles (five kilometres) of shelving every year. The ten-acre (4-hectare) Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in the northwest of the city is currently under development. The most notable Oxford act is Radiohead, who all met at nearby Abingdon School, though other well known local bands include Supergrass, Ride, Mr Big, Swervedriver, Lab 4, Talulah Gosh, the Candyskins, Medal, the Egg, Unbelievable Truth, Hurricane No. The club's notable former managers include Ian Greaves, Jim Smith, Maurice Evans, Brian Horton, Ramon Diaz and Denis Smith.As of October 2022, [update] 73 Nobel Prize laureates, 4 Fields Medalists, and 6 Turing Award winners have matriculated, worked, or held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, while its alumni have won 160 Olympic medals. On 7 October 1920 women became eligible for admission as full members of the university and were given the right to take degrees. If a vaccine could train the immune system to attack the spike, then the team knew they were odds-on to succeed.

Oxford has educated a wide range of notable alumni, including 30 prime ministers of the United Kingdom and many heads of state and government around the world. The students associated together on the basis of geographical origins, into two ' nations', representing the North ( northerners or Boreales, who included the English people from north of the River Trent and the Scots) and the South ( southerners or Australes, who included English people from south of the Trent, the Irish and the Welsh). Out of the students who matriculated in 1870, 59% were sons of professionals (25% were Anglican ministers). If and when the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine might be available in the United States is a big question.The colleges then invite shortlisted candidates for interview, where they are provided with food and accommodation for around three days in December. From the beginnings of the Church of England as the established church until 1866, membership of the church was a requirement to receive the BA degree from the university and " dissenters" were only permitted to receive the MA in 1871.

Examples of statutory professors are the Chichele Professorships and the Drummond Professor of Political Economy.

Wren was part of a brilliant group of experimental scientists at Oxford in the 1650s, the Oxford Philosophical Club, which included Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke. AstraZeneca and Oxford University have been working on an adenovirus-based vaccine, officially named ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222). It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. The current building was completed in 1897, on a site which had been occupied by Oxford's guildhall since the 13th century.

The city is also home to the UK operations of Wiley-Blackwell, Elsevier [26] and several smaller publishing houses. The University Museum of Natural History holds the university's zoological, entomological and geological specimens. The Oxford Hockey Club (formed after a merger of City of Oxford HC and Rover Oxford HC in 2011) plays most of its home games on the pitch at Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus and also uses the pitches at Headington Girls' School and Iffley Road.If a large number of shortlisted applicants for a subject choose one college, then students who named that college may be reallocated randomly to under-subscribed colleges for the subject.