Babbage: Viral defences

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A new strain of covid-19 is surging in Britain, America and Europe—vaccines can curb the effects, but can governments speed up the roll-out? Also, in 2020 some regions acted rapidly enough to avoid severe waves of infection. Host Kenneth Cukier speaks to the public health leaders who initiated “elimination” strategies.

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0:00.0	There are some things that can truly ruin your wedding.
0:03.0	For example, a stain on your wedding dress.
0:06.0	Or the appearance of your ex.
0:09.0	Give him my picture, ex.
0:10.0	You forgot to button his shirt all the way up.
0:12.0	Or a bunch of pirates.
0:14.0	You take everybody hostage.
0:16.0	Here's the plan.
0:17.0	The new action romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez.
0:20.0	Sir, give me the grenades, sir.
0:21.0	And Josh Dumel.
0:22.0	Oh, you got it!
0:23.0	Shotgun wedding.
0:24.0	Coming 27th January, only on Prime Video,
0:27.0	included with Prime.
0:30.0	This week, Britain injected the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine
0:33.0	into patients for the first time.
0:35.0	And India has issued emergency use authorization for the jab.
0:39.0	But India's government halted exports from one of them
0:43.0	vaccines largest manufacturing facilities.
0:46.0	Is vaccine nationalism a real threat to the world?
0:49.0	And India has issued emergency use authorization for the jab.
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