How Oxford scientists developed a Covid-19 vaccine in record time

Experts involved in the inoculation race explain how the jab was developed

A nurse prepares a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
A nurse prepares a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine
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Tonia Thomas, vaccine knowledge project manager at the University of Oxford and Rachel Colin-Jones, visiting academic at Oxford University’s Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, on how the first vaccine developed in the UK was produced.

The pandemic is only a year old, but we already have multiple vaccines available to fight Covid-19 – including the vaccine developed by the team we’re part of at the University of Oxford.

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