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Sep 10, 2020, 6 tweets

We just kicked off our #TortoiseG7bnSummit with a ThinkIn asking: who gets a vaccine?

Throughout today we’re discussing what leaders need to be doing about the big issues we face including: debt, the SDGs, misinformation, food security and much more.
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Pascal Soriot, CEO of @AstraZeneca, joined us for the first session of the #TortoiseG7bnSummit and explained the current pause in their vaccine trial.

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“Governments have programmes to vaccinate people over a period of time...we will not have the capacity to supply the hundreds of millions of doses that will be necessary, governments will have to prioritise populations at risk”

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This week there was a pause this week in Phase 3 trialling of the coronavirus vaccine run by @AstraZeneca and @UniofOxford

Pascal Soriot, CEO of @AstraZeneca explains what this means, and why it's more common than you might expect

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The big story from this morning: Soriot tells our attendees that we could have a vaccine distributed "by the end of this year, early next year".

Earlier at the #TortoiseG7bnSummit

Watch the full conversation here:

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