The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain

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Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. Before the meeting, I’d asked Matt Hancock for advice about the questions likely to arise, and about how I should conduct myself. I loved the last chapter , looking back, I am shocked, but not surprised, about the quality of those officials in Whitehall and without STEM backgrounds. The other thing is [to demonstrate] you can study science without having to be a person in a white coat.

The next 24 hours were frantic, as the UK raced to finalise a contract for 30 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot before the United States. Now, nearly every adult in Britain has had the jab, lockdowns have ended and we can finally live with Covid.I had not realised that one of the benefits of the NHS is the central database of patient records which proved useful for the clinical trials. Author proceeds to The New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) and early years education, development and advocacy charity Kindred Squared. The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice. She chaired the UK Government’s Vaccine Taskforce, which steered the procurement of vaccines and the strategy for their use during the pandemic.

She is Managing Partner at life sciences venture capital firm SV Health Investors where she co-leads SV’s biotech franchise in the development of transformational new medicines, including the launch of twenty drugs for inflammatory and autoimmune disease, blindness and cancer. K. Vaccine Taskforce, and journalist Hames debut with an incisive behind-the-scenes look at the challenges Bingham faced in her role.The trouble is, given a problem as complex and fluid as democratic government, we also need insiders. Ideally I’d like it to give the Government a kick up the arse, to say you need to put an independent, industry-trained pandemic leader in place. Indeed, Bingham’s candid account will be uncomfortable reading for those who nurse a dogmatic hostility to “insiders”. Christ Church was silent except for the footfall of unseen persons around corners and the sounds of evensong creeping from behind closed doors.