The women behind the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine explain how international collaboration allowed for the development of a COVID-19 vaccination in record time, and dispel misinformation surrounding the vaccine's effects.

Everyone's lives changed forever in early 2020, but by the time COVID-19 began spreading around the world, two remarkable women were already hard at work to stop it.

Sarah Gilbert is a professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford and co-developer of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine with her colleague Dr. Catherine Green, an associate professor in Chromosome Dynamics.

Written as an antidote to misinformation, Vaxxers tells the story of how Gilbert and Green created their vaccine.

Dubbed a vaccine for the world, more than 2 billion doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca have now been distributed at cost to over 170 countries, helping to save millions of lives.

While social media platforms are rife with misinformation and myths, Vaxxers aims to lay out the facts.