This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield spoke to two scientists who are behind the new Oxford coronavirus vaccine.
The hosts spoke to Professor Katie Ewer, associate professor and senior immunologist, and Dr Maheshi Ramasamy from the Oxford vaccine team.
Phillip explained that Professor Sarah Gilbert [Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Vaccitech] predicted there would be a global pandemic, and so created a template for the vaccine, which could be adapted to combat multiple diseases. "So there was a foundation in place just in case?" asked Phillip.
Professor Katie replied: "Yes that's right, a lot of the work we do at the Jenner [Institute] is based on this platform technology, and we've
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