A faster Covid-19 vaccine

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Jane, Dara, and Matt discuss the possibility of "human challenge trials" to speed vaccine development. Resources: "How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor" by Michael Specter, The New Yorker "What Each Side of the COVID-19 Debate Should Understand About the Other" by Brian Doherty, Reason "Special Report: Peruvian coca farmers to Paris pushers, coronavirus upends global narcotics trade" by Gabriel Stargardter, Drazen Jorgic, Reuters White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.0	What?
0:32.0	Quick time just told me cannot record.
0:35.0	I had that issue last week.
0:37.0	It's fine. No, there's no problem.
0:39.0	I don't know why it was being weird, but it's recording now.
0:55.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:59.0	I'm Matthew Glacias here with Jane Kostin, Pro Publica's Darrylind, Quarantine Draxon.
1:04.0	We've got a white paper about the other epidemic of opioids and overdoses
1:10.0	that people used to talk about a lot and that continues to be an important issue.
1:14.0	But want to continue talking about the coronavirus situation.
1:17.0	And something that I've been thinking about a lot as I assume most people have
1:23.0	is like, will we be able to get out of this eventually with a vaccine?
1:28.0	And it's, there's this sort of factoid out there that Dr. Fauci and others
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