Trashing of AZ vax safety ‘probably killed hundreds of thousands’
Misinformation peddled by scientists and politicians caused reputational damage around the world, says Professor Sir John Bell, who helped develop the COVID-19 vaccine
A leading UK immunologist who worked on the development of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine says scientists and politicians “probably killed hundreds of thousands of people” as a result of scaremongering around its safety profile.
Speaking on a BBC documentary aired this week, Professor Sir John Bell said: “They have damaged the reputation of the vaccine in a way that echoes around the rest of the world.”
“I think bad behaviour from scientists and from politicians has probably killed hundreds of thousands of people — and that they cannot be proud of,” said the regius professor of medicine at Oxford University.
