At the other end of the line was an old friend, Kate Bingham , a pharmaceutical investor who had just agreed to lead the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, a team of private sector experts assembled to secure vaccine doses for the British public. She knew that I knew everybody in the industry," Bates, a lobbyist who heads the UK BioIndustry Association, told CNN. But the government's foresight in backing coronavirus vaccines has turned into one of the most surprising success stories of the pandemic. Staff prepare to give the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to patients at a vaccination center set up inside Salisbury Cathedral on January 20. The fire station in Basingstoke is able to inject more than 1,000 vaccine doses per day.

Source: CNN February 15, 2021 05:03 UTC