Pas­cal So­ri­ot would­n't 'do any­thing dif­fer­ent­ly' in Covid-19 vac­cine de­vel­op­ment — re­port

While Mod­er­na and Pfiz­er have tak­en much of the lime­light when it comes to Covid-19 vac­cines, As­traZeneca’s boss is stand­ing by his com­pa­ny’s de­vel­op­ment ef­forts.

In an in­ter­view with the BBC on Mon­day, As­traZeneca CEO Pas­cal So­ri­ot claimed the com­pa­ny’s Covid-19 vac­cine has man­aged to save a mil­lion lives de­spite fac­ing set­backs. So­ri­ot ad­dressed stud­ies link­ing the vac­cine to rare blood clots, but in look­ing back on the vac­cine’s de­vel­op­ment, he told BBC: “I don’t think I would do any­thing dif­fer­ent­ly from what we did.“

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