What went wrong for the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab? This film investigates how safety scares and vaccine nationalism threatened to derail the 'workhorse vaccine for the world'. Combining compelling insider interviews with archive footage and original journalism, this film investigates how early missteps with a Covid-19 vaccine by the pharma company Oxford-AstraZeneca was blown up by politicians across the US and Europe. It navigates through the twists and turns of the global narrative, providing the stories behind the headlines, and asks what has been the human cost of the AstraZeneca controversy? And has AstraZeneca succeeded in making a Covid vaccine for the world?
What went wrong for the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab? This film investigates how safety scares and vaccine nationalism threatened to derail the 'workhorse vaccine for the world'. Combining compelling insider interviews with archive footage and original journalism, this film investigates how early missteps with a Covid-19 vaccine by the pharma company Oxford-AstraZeneca was blown up by politicians across the US and Europe. It navigates through the twists and turns of the global narrative, providing the stories behind the headlines, and asks what has been the human cost of the AstraZeneca controversy? And has AstraZeneca succeeded in making a Covid vaccine for the world?
General Note
Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2021.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 03, 2022.