The UK’s Vaccine Taskforce chair has cautioned against over-optimism that a Covid-19 vaccine will be found. It comes as PM Boris Johnson says it’s an “exaggeration” that a vaccine is 100 percent likely this year or next.
Following the announcement on Monday that the government has secured early access to 90 million doses of “promising vaccine candidates,” chair Kate Bingham sought to temper the enthusiasm of those who may have thought a breakthrough was imminent. She told Sky News: “We have to be very cautious, because there has never been a vaccine against a coronavirus and there may never be one.”
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