Analysis - Lessons from the Vaccine Task Force

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In May 2020 a group of experts came together, at speed, to form the UK’s Vaccine Task Force. Born in the teeth of a crisis, its efforts were responsible for allowing Britain to be among the first countries in the world to roll out vaccines against Covid-19.

But as memories of the pandemic fade, the urgency it brought to its work has subsided as well. In this edition of Analysis, Sandra Kanthal asks what lessons have been learned from the success of the Vaccine Task Force and if we should be prepared to allocate the time, energy and expense required to be permanently prepared for the next global health emergency.

Presenter: Sandra Kanthal Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor: Clare Fordham

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:39.0	Hello and welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4.
0:43.4	I'm Sandra Cantol, one of the presenters of the Radio 4 Current Affairs Series analysis.
0:48.6	In this episode, Lessons from the Vaccine Task Force,
0:52.4	I ask what lessons we've learned from the
0:54.7	success of the UK Vaccine Task Force and how we may be able to apply them
0:59.7	to any future global health crisis. To hear more episodes like this, just search for
1:05.7	analysis on BBC Sounds.
1:09.7	The UK has become the first country in the world to begin using a fully tested vaccine against coronavirus.
1:18.0	On December 8th, 2020, in a hospital in Coventry, Margaret Keenan became the first person outside of trials to receive a
1:27.3	clinically approved vaccine for COVID-19. It was a real moment of hope after a long bleak year and began the UK's road out of lockdown
1:38.7	It's so wonderful really. This is for a good cause so I'm so pleased I had it done.
1:44.0	These new vaccines, first from Pfizer Biotech, then quickly followed by Moderna,
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