Vaxxers : the inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the race against the virus

The Resource Vaxxers : the inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the race against the virus
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Vaxxers : the inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the race against the virus
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the inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the race against the virus
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Professor Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green ; written with Deborah Crewe
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eng
Summary
This is the story a race -- not against other vaccines or other scientists, but against a deadly and devastating virus. On 1 January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within two weeks, she had designed a vaccine against a pathogen that no one had ever seen before. Less than 12 months later, vaccination was rolled out across the world to save millions of lives from Covid-19. In Vaxxers, we hear directly from Professor Gilbert and her colleague Dr Catherine Green as they reveal the inside story of making the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and the cutting-edge science and sheer hard work behind it. This is their story of fighting a pandemic as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. They share the heart-stopping moments in the eye of the storm; they separate fact from fiction; they explain how they made a highly effective vaccine in record time with the eyes of the world watching; and they give us hope for the future. Vaxxers invites us into the lab to find out how science will save us from this pandemic, and how we can prepare for the inevitable next one
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
SALS
Dewey number
614.47
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Target audience
adult
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