UK targets up to 12 Covid-19 vaccines from around the world
Head of the government’s vaccines taskforce reveals strategy aimed at ‘exploring the landscape’ and hedging bets
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The UK government aims to secure stocks not of one vaccine or even two – but up to 12 that are being developed around the world, hedging its bets to ensure it has something that works as early as possible to try to end the health, social and economic havoc being wreaked by Covid-19.
As Oxford University published its first results, showing its vaccine is safe and provokes a good immune response, Kate Bingham, chair of the government’s vaccines taskforce, explained that the strategy was to have an entire portfolio, not just one star player.
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