A tale of two vaccine searches

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Carolyn Y. Johnson explains how the unsuccessful years-long hunt for an HIV vaccine could give scientists a leg up in developing a novel coronavirus vaccine. Carlos Lozada dissects Mary L. Trump’s new book. And Ben Golliver shares a glimpse from inside the NBA bubble at Disney World.

Decades of research on an HIV vaccine boost the bid for one against coronavirus.

The real villain of Mary L. Trump’s family tell-all isn’t Donald. It’s Fred.

What’s it like in the NBA’s Disney bubble? For one reporter: Hotel room workouts and lots of time to think.

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0:21.4	Hi there is the Mary and Marissa Lang with the Washington Post.
0:24.4	Hey it's Dossie, I want to pick your brain on the floor.
0:26.7	Hi, my name is Janet Johnson.
0:29.2	This is Post Reports.
0:30.8	I'm Martine Powers.
0:34.1	It's Thursday July 16th.
0:39.0	Today, how HIV research paved the path toward a COVID vaccine,
0:43.7	a new book by the president's niece and life inside the NBA bubble.
0:51.6	In the early 1980s, there began to be basically case reports of young otherwise healthy men
0:59.0	kind of showing up in hospitals with really mysterious infections of rare aggressive cancers,
1:05.9	pneumonia.
1:10.4	In 1984, they identified the virus that was causing this epidemic.
1:17.1	First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found.
1:21.2	A variant of a known human cancer virus.
1:24.1	And that sparked federal health officials to announce that this was a moment of great hope
1:31.6	and that they would soon be able to develop a vaccine for testing.
1:38.3	They estimated within two years.
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