A lot has changed since Margaret Keenan arrived at University Hospital Coventry a year ago today
She was the first person on Earth to receive a coronavirus vaccine outside clinical trials – now the number is about four billion 💉
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It’s been a long road – about 50 million Brits have followed Keenan’s example, but the campaign is far from over. So how should we think about the vaccine today?
Undeniably, it's been a year of breakthroughs
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🗓 December 8 2020: the arms race begins
• 90-year-old grandmother Keenan gets her Pfizer-BioNTech jab
🗓 January 4 2021: AZ arrives
• Brian Pinker, an 82-year-old dialysis patient, becomes the first person to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
🗓 March 11
• Several European nations suspend use of the AstraZeneca vaccine following reports of blood clots
🗓 March 23
A transatlantic row flares up over AZ as Dr Anthony Fauci rebukes the British drugmaker for releasing inaccurate data
🗓 April 7
• The UK decides to offer people under 30 alternatives to the AstraZeneca jab
🗓 June 6
• Boris Johnson urges G7 leaders to “defeat Covid” by vaccinating the world by the end of 2022
A lot more milestones were also reached in June 👇
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🗓 September 16
• Booster shots begin for the over-50s and vulnerable groups
🗓 December 8
• The heavily-mutated Omicron variant, discovered at the end of November, appears to spread quickly
• The promised acceleration of the booster campaign is yet to reach full speed
One year of Covid vaccines: what have we learnt?
📈 Check our interactive charts
🗞 Read the full report @whippletom @rhysblakely
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