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Explain It to Me

A faster Covid-19 vaccine

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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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