Thread by @DebraClaridge

#BBCPanorama 'Prof Sarah Gilbert of Vaccinology, Oxford Uni. 'There is an anti-vaccine movement- what we wld like to do is to help people to try to understand, how the vaccine works. How much work has gone into producing it.

'What we need to do to get a vaccine to protect people against this 'terrible disease''.

A virus actually dear prof that is a minor illness in the majority - the majority whom do not need to be vaccinated.

I am always interested when vitally important information is omitted such as this. #Panorama stated that one of the volunteers had neurological issues, but then did not reveal what those issues were??🤔

It turns out that AstraZeneca said it was a woman in the UK who had symptoms consistent with a rare but 'serious spinal inflammatory disorder'. indiatoday.in/world/story/ox…

How did Oxford university make this elementary mistake of a low dose (half dose)/standard dose of the vaccine in the 18 to 55 age group? Fergus Walsh asks about the speed of the vaccine. ''Why would people choose your vaccine over Pfizer?''

Astonishing reply from Professor Andrew Pollard ''I don't think we should be looking at the numbers and trying to decide which one is better than the other we need people and that's got to happen soon if we want get back to normal''.

''It's a relief at this stage that all the work that people have done during the year and all the money that has been spent on manufacturing large amounts of this vaccine is not going to go to waste.

We have to have a lot of doses ready to go and we know that we
don't know if it works yet but we can't wait. So get on with it''. -
Professor Sarah Gilbert.

'We don't know howlong protection lasts or even if it stops virus transmission''.