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EXC: The chair of the UK's vaccine task force showed “official sensitive” government documents to a $200-a-head event for elite US venture capitalists last week
Kate Bingham, a Boris Johnson appointee, showed guests a list of products which the government is set to invest in 1/
Kate Bingham, a Boris Johnson appointee, showed guests a list of products which the government is set to invest in 1/
Bingham spent 1hr with the “networking event” for women in private equity held by a Massachusetts firm
Her PowerPoint included a sensitive internal breakdown of vaccines.
Blue: "We haven’t necessarily signed contracts with all of them so far. But they’re all in our sights.” 2/
Her PowerPoint included a sensitive internal breakdown of vaccines.
Blue: "We haven’t necessarily signed contracts with all of them so far. But they’re all in our sights.” 2/
Bingham combines the role with her job as managing director of SV Health Investors, a private equity firm
Like Dido Harding, she is married to a Conservative MP: Treasury Minister Jesse Norman.
She also went to school with Rachel Johson
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Like Dido Harding, she is married to a Conservative MP: Treasury Minister Jesse Norman.
She also went to school with Rachel Johson
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In her talk she said she expects all over-50s to have vaccine available by Easter
But she also showed docs predicting up to 40% may never take it
There's “concern” over whether vaccines will “actually work". There isn't “any data” on whether it works for those with flu 4/
But she also showed docs predicting up to 40% may never take it
There's “concern” over whether vaccines will “actually work". There isn't “any data” on whether it works for those with flu 4/
As a result officials are mulling a major “three-visits” programme that will see vulnerable given on flu vaccine and two for COVID next year
She also disclosed that the government will “literally dispatch roving teams on motorbikes” to deliver the vaccine to the vulnerable 5/
She also disclosed that the government will “literally dispatch roving teams on motorbikes” to deliver the vaccine to the vulnerable 5/
There is an important “debate” to be had, she added, about whether or not to vaccinate children.
As it stands, it is "highly unlikely" we'll have legislation to make vaccines mandatory and, therefore, improbable there will be herd immunity
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As it stands, it is "highly unlikely" we'll have legislation to make vaccines mandatory and, therefore, improbable there will be herd immunity
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Sir Alistair Graham, a former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said it was “seriously ill-advised” to give. “It must raise a question as to whether she is a suitable person to be chairing a task force like that,” he said. /7
@JonAshworth said: “‘There are serious questions here as to why this information was shared at an international online conference where attendees paid for access. We are in a public health crisis and this information that ministers should be shared with the public.” 8/
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