'Birthplace of vaccination' museum in UK at risk after Covid closure
by Steven Morris from Science | The Guardian on (#5B7N1)
Former Gloucestershire home of father of immunology' Edward Jenner too small for safe social distancing measures
The future of a museum that tells the astonishing story of the British father of immunology" is hanging in the balance because it has been forced to close throughout the Covid crisis and faces uncertainty over how it will operate in the post-pandemic world.
Edward Jenner's former family home in Gloucestershire has been shut since February, and the decision has been taken to keep it closed until spring, meaning it will lose more than a year's vital admission fees.
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