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

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She is Managing Partner at life sciences venture capital firm SV Health Investors where she co-leads SV’s biotech franchise which has a long history of developing transformational new medicines.

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Johnson is benignly hands-off til he has to become positively hands-on in reigning in spinning misinformation about the VTF coming out of Number 10. Good on her - success is not just about creating high performance teams, it is also about identifying and addressing hypocrisy and poor performance, and ultimately punishing failure. nearly complete absence in the civil service of scientific, industrial, commercial and manufacturing skills'. Covid is still spreading, probably mutating and just waiting for the next advantageous circumstance to jump back into wider global populations.

An excellent read… Capturing the exceptional pace and energy of everyone involved in discovering and producing effective therapies against Covid-19. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Catapulted into an international crisis, Kate Bingham knew the odds were heavily stacked against a workable Covid-19 vaccine.He was a lecturer in Politics at Oxford University 1989–96, specialising in American and British Government. No and the book argues that Britain will probably be less prepared than it was for the covid pandemic.

Finally, Bingham finishes off the book with reflections on working with government and the issues that hold Government back from delivering on service and projects.She is a board member of the Francis Crick Institute and was awarded a DBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services as Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce. From a remote cottage, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus… as deaths mounted and the world shut down. An incisive behind-the-scenes look at the challenges Bingham faced in her role… The authors combine a lucid explanation of the scientific breakthroughs needed to create the first Covid vaccine with an insider look at the politics that hampered the taskforce’s efforts. Political manoeuvring, miscommunications and administrative meddling nearly jeopardised the project. Kate Bingham’s new book, The Long Shot, is a gripping account of the UK Government Vaccine Task Force’s response to the pandemic by a remarkable, determined, thoughtful, and practical individual who was at the heart of the critical decisions that had to be made.