There have been incredible scientific discoveries in the last 12 months. Vaccines with this speed have never been designed, developed, tested and approved. But with the NHS close to breaking point and days after an alarming number of Covid-related deaths, there has been a new urgency in the government’s vaccination efforts this week.
The scientific editor of the Observatory, Robin McKie, he says Anushka asthana that scientists work 24 hours a day in laboratories to manufacture vaccine doses and that, after high-profile problems with testing and tracking systems, there can be no excuse for eliminating the vaccine.
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