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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: How Abu Dhabi’s Hope Consortium is helping to vaccinate the world
Description: On December 31, 2020, one year after coronavirus was first detected, the World Health Organisation gave the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine emergency validation, making it the first to be given such clearance. It was just seven months after the first trials began – a record breaking length of time.Â
Other vaccines followed. AstraZeneca, Moderna, Sinopharm, Sputnik V and Johnson & Johnson are now common names for a range of jabs that are being deployed in different regions of the world.Â
Hundreds of millions of doses have been administered worldwide. But with over seven and a half billion people on Earth and with...