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In the UK, Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert – the woman who led the development of Oxford University’s Covid vaccine – has won a prestigious business award.
She was honoured at Veuve Clicquot’s annual awards ceremony, not just for her most recent work on the Covid vaccine but for her decade of experience in developing vaccines at Oxford with university spinout Vaccitech.
For the last 18 months a dedicated team worked hard to deliver the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.
It illustrates what can be achieved when academic institutions and the private sector work together, and this is something we must build on.
Pfizer has been accused of holding Brazil “to ransom” over demands to shield itself from possible vaccine side-effect lawsuits in its contract to supply the country with 100m Covid jabs.
In its $1bn (£700m) deal with Pfizer Export BV, signed in March, despite its prior complaints, the Brazilian government agreed that “a liability waiver be signed for any possible side-effects of the vaccine, exempting Pfizer from any civil liability for serious side-effects arising from the use of the vaccine, indefinitely”.
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