The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain

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From a cottage miles away from Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus – and her daughter’s exams.

Good on her - success is not just about creating high performance teams, it is also about identifying and addressing hypocrisy and poor performance, and ultimately punishing failure. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Kate Bingham’s new book, The Long Shot , is a gripping account of the UK Government Vaccine Task Force’s response to the pandemic by a remarkable, determined, thoughtful, and practical individual who was at the heart of the critical decisions that had to be made.The Times and The Guardian are shown as particularly eager recipients and disseminators of spun misinformation about the VTF. Covid is still spreading, probably mutating and just waiting for the next advantageous circumstance to jump back into wider global populations. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Instead, they carried on with usual Government bureaucracy and inefficiency, with civil servants and politicians spending time protecting their 'fiefdoms' and promoting their own interests. The author warns that information spinners are a vast workforce in Whitehall; they are numerous and expensive and an absolute drag on efficiency and exist to spread misinformation if that suits the political purposes of the departments in which they reside.A blueprint of how industry, academia and government can work together to address a question of global importance, with lessons for other future crises.