The professor behind the AstraZeneca Covid jab has revealed that sickening attacks by anti-vaxxers forced him to get police protection.
Professor Andrew Pollard was a part of the team behind the development of the Oxford-Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccine.
Despite the “overwhelmingly positive” reaction to him and his team, they have been forced to call the police after chilling threats from anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists.
Speaking to The Sun on Sunday , the professor revealed the drastic action he had been forced to take to ensure his own safety.
He said: “We get a lot of negative correspondence from people, some of it threatening.
“We’ve had extra security during the pandemic and we’ve had the police involved if necessary.
“There are regular discussions with them about potential threats. It is a little bit scary, but we are supported."
He said he just had to “shrug off” the threats from extremists and has even faced issues on the cybersecurity side but has the full support of officers there as well.
Despite the minority of negative and threatening correspondence, he said that most people had been incredibly positive and he had even been asked for autographs when out jogging.
A lot of the positive correspondences have been from children as well, some of whom he hoped would become vaccine experts themselves.
Professor Pollard has watched as Britain has changed since the first AZ jab was administered 13 months ago on January 4, 2021.
The third person to receive the jab, he was also knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list last summer.
He is now confident that the UK is in a totally different place to where it was back then and believes the country has reached the point where moving forward from restrictions is broadly the right path.
Despite being largely positive about where the UK is now, he warned some people will still fall sick with the virus.
He also warned that the country remains an ideal breeding ground for another, even deadlier pandemic.
The UK’s huge population, vast international travel, denser communities and increasing global encroachment on animals all lend themselves to another pandemic.
One that could be even deadlier than Covid-19.
To help combat this he said the UK should help vaccine rollouts in countries where jab rates still lag behind the west.
Thanks to vaccine hoarding, and also most citizens getting two or three jabs, huge swathes of western citizens have multiple jabs whilst many other humans do not have one.
