This week came disheartening news of a supply glitch that will slow the roll-out. This week came disheartening news of a supply glitch that will slow the roll-out. It was written in 2016 by respected British biochemist Karl Simpson for the UK Vaccine R&D Network (whose members included a then-obscure professor by the name of Chris Whitty). Meanwhile, Professor Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, had also been alerted very quickly to the Far Eastern peril. This week our vaccine roll-out has suffered its first major glitches: supply shortages and petulant EU vaccine nationalism.

Source: Daily Mail March 19, 2021 22:41 UTC