May.21 — U.K. Conservative MP and House of Commons Science & Technology Committee Chair Greg Clark discusses AstraZeneca getting $1 billion to make a vaccine for coronavirus, the possibility of a vaccine and how the U.K. has handled the crisis so far. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.”
In This Story: Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.