Mr Soriot praised Australia’s “great pragmatism” in instituting lockdowns at a time many in Europe argued such restrictions could work in China but were impossible in a democracy.
Mr Soriot, who has had his first coronavirus vaccination, was once a vet before deciding to swap that career for one in business, which now earns him a $27.5 million salary. But now because hospitalisation of people with the disease in Britain was “rapidly collapsing”, Mr Soriot predicts the UK would be in a “different place”, which could include lessening travel restrictions by April. In the US, that could be by June or July and in Europe by the northern summer.
While other manufacturers such as Pfizer use a more complicated mRNA delivering system, the AstraZeneca vaccine is easier to produce and transport and is easier to distribute to poorer countries. Mr Soriot says this will be necessary to prevent the virus from spreading and mutating and then returning to richer countries.
He is also facing a different threat, that of anti-vaxxers. But he is relatively sanguine, saying it is part of human nature. “You will still have people issuing misinformation. That’s the nature of democracy, you can’t stop people from speaking.”
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