Vaxxers : the Inside story of the Oxford vaccine and the race against the virus By Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green ; written with Deborah Crewe.

By:

Gilbert, Sarah & Green, Catherine

Contributor(s):

Crewe, Deborah (Written with)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Hodder & Stoughton c2021.Edition: 1Description: 336PISBN:

9781529369878

Subject(s):

Viral vaccines--Research COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination University of Oxford England--Oxford AstraZeneca (Firm)

DDC classification:

614.592 414 GIL-V

Contents:

Prologue: 'We don't know what's in it' -- We made a vaccine -- Disease X -- Designing the vaccine -- Money, money, money -- Making the vaccine -- Scale-up -- With great care, and due haste -- Trials -- The prince and the protestors: vaccine acceptance and hesitancy -- Vogue -- Waiting -- To licensure and beyond -- Disease Y: next time -- Appendix A: different types of vaccine -- Appendix B: the classic method and the rapid method -- Appendix C: what is in the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine?

Summary: This is the story of 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 and her team 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. Sarah and Cath 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

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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Prologue: 'We don't know what's in it' --
We made a vaccine --
Disease X --
Designing the vaccine --
Money, money, money --
Making the vaccine --
Scale-up --
With great care, and due haste --
Trials --
The prince and the protestors: vaccine acceptance and hesitancy --
Vogue --
Waiting --
To licensure and beyond --
Disease Y: next time --
Appendix A: different types of vaccine --
Appendix B: the classic method and the rapid method --
Appendix C: what is in the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine?

This is the story of 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 and her team 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. Sarah and Cath 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

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