Adam John Ritchie should be celebrating.
For years, as a project manager at the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute, he worked to make vaccines for a dollar or two a dose for the globe. The pandemic was his big break, as the university teamed up with Anglo-Swedish pharma giant AstraZeneca to develop one of the world s first coronavirus vaccines.
But over a year and an extra 25 kilos later,
Ritchie says, the jab s ill-fated rollout has taken its toll.
“I m broken,” he said. “Colleagues are broken; we re all broken.” He had already cried once on the day he spoke with POLITICO earlier this month.