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What happened with the AstraZeneca vaccine?

What happened with the AstraZeneca vaccine?

How did a vaccine hailed as a gamechanger end up in a scientific and political storm?

The Documentary Podcast · BBC World Service

March 20, 20219m 40s

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Show Notes

Some of the European Union's biggest nations have restarted their roll-out of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after the medicines regulator concluded it was safe and effective. Ros Atkins considers how a vaccine initially hailed as a "gamechanger", has ended up in the middle of a scientific and political storm.