Amanpour: Ed Yong, Gary Lineker and Tom Nichols

Amanpour

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As the U.S. nears 90,000 coronavirus deaths, the WHO this week warned that the virus may never go away, making a vaccine the holy grail. President Trump promised a vaccine at 'warp speed' on Friday, a much faster timetable than many experts predict. Christiane Amanpour speaks to Ed Yong, science writer at The Atlantic, about the science behind the virus. Meanwhile the eyes of many sports fans will be on the German Bundesliga this weekend as it becomes the first major European soccer league to return amid the coronavirus pandemic. Former English football player Gary Lineker talks to Christiane about the impact the virus is having on the sporting world. And our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Tom Nichols, author of "The Death of Expertise", about the increasing tension between science and politics and how it informs the current health crisis. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:09.0	We're gearing up on the assumption that we'll have in the near future, relatively near
0:16.5	future, a vaccine.
0:18.1	A real promise or raising unrealistic hopes.
0:21.5	Top health reporter Ed Young of the Atlantic
0:24.4	brings his expertise to connect all the coronavirus dog.
0:28.4	Then, what we found is that our tribalism
0:31.9	became more important than facts.
0:35.7	The death of expertise,
0:37.2	Harvard Professor Tom Nichols tells
0:39.1	our Harry Srinovasan about the war on knowledge.
0:43.0	Plus, Germany gets the virus under control and gets Europe's first soccer matches back into empty
0:49.4	stadiums.
0:50.4	Legendary England striker Gary Linneker tells me what's at stake for sports. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur working from home in London.
1:15.0	A coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, maybe before,
1:19.0	that is President Trump's take as he promises a vaccine at warp speed. He said it from the White House
1:24.9	Rose Garden. Take a listen.
1:27.2	Nobody's seen anything like we're doing now within our country since the Second World War.
1:35.0	Incredible.
1:37.0	Its objective is to finish developing and then to manufacture and distribute
1:42.0	a proven coronavirus vaccine as fast as possible.
1:46.4	Again, we'd love to see if we could do it prior to the end of the year.
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