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The world's largest vaccine maker, Serum Institute of India (SII), agreed to send 10million doses at the very start of the rollout as a token of gratitude for the Oxford vaccine
When Boris Johnson gives evidence this week to the Covid Inquiry he will need to show bereaved families that he feels their pain and accepts ultimate responsibility for everything which went wrong while he was Prime Minister.
The young and healthy, who were at minimal risk from Covid, should not have been told they had to take the vaccine
I am not an anti-vaxxer but… On 29 April 2021, Lisa Shaw, a clever, sensible, creative, mischievous, award-winning presenter at BBC Radio Newcastle, had her first Covid vaccination. Like millions of us, Lisa was delighted and relieved to get her jab. Not only did the 44-year-old mother of one feel she was doing her bit to keep her community safe (Lisa had been astonished a few weeks earlier when a girlfriend had said she wasn’t getting jabbed), she was excited “to give her mam a hug”.
Panic was triggered after Dame Kate Bingham, who chaired the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, said Disease X could be “20 times deadlier than Coronavirus” and the next pandemic, which could take 50 million lives, might already be on its way