Thursday's front page: UK playing with fire after Covid jabs U-turn, warn scientists From janemerrick23: TomorrowsPapersToday
Dame Kate told the joint health and science committee that existing Covid vaccines – including the new bivalent booster shot which offers protection against severe disease from Omicron strains – were “not good enough”, particularly at reducing transmission.
She told MPs: “Our vaccines currently are not good enough, we need to improve the quality of the vaccines, the durability, the ability to stop transmission, the ways in which we give vaccines, lots of things need to be improved. “People that understand manufacturing scale up, clinical development, regulation… all of that has gone.
She cited the sale of the Vaccines and Manufacturing and Innovation Centre to US company Catalent, which has since announced that it will not be putting expenditure in until 2024.Cobra Biologics, “a key part of the early scale for the vaccine manufacturing”, has been acquired by American pharmaceutical company Charles River.Dame Kate added: “I don’t think we are in a much better place to deal with a new pandemic… I think we’re marginally better.
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