Conflicts of interest among the UK government’s covid-19 advisers are not transparent

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https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom...t-transparent/

For example, it was reported that Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser and head of its Vaccine Taskforce, had £600,000 worth of shares in GlaxoSmithKline, after the company signed a coronavirus vaccine deal with the government for an undisclosed sum.

Another member of the Taskforce, John Bell of Oxford University - who also headed the National Covid Testing Scientific Advisory Panel and chaired the government’s new test approvals group - was reported to have £773,000 worth of shares in pharma company Roche, which had sold the government £13.5m of antibody tests.

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No surprises there. The sooner they’re gone, the better.