Vaxxers the inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the race against the virus
This is the story of a race - not against other vaccines or other scientists, but against a deadly and devastating virus. On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within two weeks, she and he...
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Hodder & Stoughton,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: 'We don't know what's in it'
- We made a vaccine
- Disease X
- Designing the vaccine
- Money, money, money
- Making the vaccine
- Scale-up
- With great care, and due haste
- Trials
- The prince and the protestors: vaccine acceptance and hesitancy
- Vogue
- Waiting
- To licensure and beyond
- Disease Y: next time
- Appendix A: different types of vaccine
- Appendix B: the classic method and the rapid method
- Appendix C: what is in the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine?
