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

Kate Bingham, a Sunday Times bestseller and Financial Times Book of the Year, led the Vaccine Taskforce to secure the first vaccine doses administered in the West, saving thousands of lives in the UK and ending lockdowns.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 20 October 2022
Publisher: Oneworld Publications

A Sunday Times bestseller and Financial Times Book of the Year, this is the essential inside story of the race against the virus. Catapulted into an international crisis, Kate Bingham knew the odds were heavily stacked against a workable COVID-19 vaccine. From a remote cottage, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus, and more as deaths mounted and the world shut down. Political maneuvering, miscommunications, and administrative meddling nearly jeopardized the project. But perseverance and expertise paid off.

Bingham's eclectic team secured the first vaccine doses administered in the West, saving thousands of lives in the UK as new variants struck. Now, nearly every adult in Britain has had the jab, lockdowns have ended, and we can finally live with COVID. This is the insider view into how the Vaccine Taskforce beat those long odds and delivered a scientific miracle.

Weight: 546g
Dimension: 164 x 242 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780861545643