Much of the media has rightly been focused on the extra ordinary efforts of the NHS to save lives and protect the nation’s health. In the background, higher education has been working tirelessly to produce a vaccine which will ‘unlock the lockdown’ and allow society to return to some form of normality.
The University of Oxford team highlighted by Bloomberg have been at the forefront of the research and in collaboration with AstraZeneca, look close to a viable solution.
It shows once again the vital function that higher education services with the UK economy and societal importance.