The Serum Institute in India aims to manufacture over 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine shots in 2021. This would be almost half the supply manufactured on the planet. Have you ever heard of the Serum Institute? What got them to this leading position? The Serum Institute was started by Cyrus Poonawalla in the 1960s. He setContinue reading “Early or Late?”
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Triumphs of science
COVID-19 vaccines are, without a doubt, a triumph of humans’ achievement in scientific and technological endeavour. That we have developed, manufactured and started rolling out relatively well tested vaccines in around one year since COVID-19 was identified, and less than one year since it was first sequenced, is truly amazing. If humans could apply suchContinue reading “Triumphs of science”
Hope & reality
In the New Year I suddenly realised how long it is likely to be until we see Sarah again, given that she currently lives in the UK. This shouldn’t have come as a startling revelation, but her Christmas card expressing the hope that we might meet up somewhere in the world in 2021 brought itContinue reading “Hope & reality”
Vaccine races
Vaccines are coming up to the top of everyone’s minds again as we contemplate the length of the COVID-19 road ahead – it’s starting to feel more like a marathon than a sprint. As long as people are getting widely infected and sick as a result, COVID-19 will be a big issue. Our treatments forContinue reading “Vaccine races”