Some good news: it looks like the Oxford vaccine may both substantially reduce transmission AND reduces symptomatic infections in people who've had just a single dose for 3 months - evidence to support the decision to extend the interval between doses
One of the most important parts of this preprint: 22 days after immunisation - NONE - of the 12,408 people vaccinated with a single dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine were hospitalised with COVID-19.
PLUS it looks like the vaccine efficiency against symptomatic covid actually ***IMPROVES*** with a longer interval between the first and second dose.

This will be reassuring to people who had the first dose and are concerned about the wait until the second.
You can see the lancet preprint here https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3777268
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