Bill Harvey: If you want blood...

With the announcement of a second Covid-19 vaccine from the US showing excellent early results (Moderna claims its vaccine to be 95% effective), it has been another week for cautious optimism about next year.

As I suggested last week, keep an eye on further announcements, especially from Oxford and Imperial. I suspect we are moving towards a spring where there will be a selection of vaccines available, each of more use to different target groups and with varying ease of supply and delivery. For a really easy-to-watch summary of where we are, I recommend a recent RSM online interview with Sir Jeremy Farrar, Sage member and boss at the Wellcome Trust, that can be viewed below: