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4.08am BST

Some more Atagi news, not that we’re wanting for it:

Associate Professor Nigel Crawford replacing Allen Cheng and Christopher Blyth as the chair of ATAGI, in a move planned before this week’s debate about its advice on AstraZeneca. Professor Michelle Giles taking over as deputy chair. 1/

3.59am BST

With that, I will be handing over the blog to the vivacious Nino Bucci – whose posts you would have been reading more of in the past hour anyway.

I’ll be back later in the afternoon.

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Source: The Guardian