Coronapod: Hope and caution greet vaccine trial result, and Trump vs the WHO
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
01:38 Trump vs the WHO
President Trump has given the WHO an ultimatum in a tweet, threatening to pull out of the organisation within 30 days unless unclear demands are met. We discuss what this means for the pandemic, the USA and the future of international health cooperation.
12:06 Where are we with vaccines?
The first results from vaccine trials are in and they are encouraging, but scientists are still urging caution. We hear the lowdown on the types of vaccines being developed and what hope there is of rolling them out any time soon.
News: Coronavirus vaccine trials have delivered their first results — but their promise is still unclear
News: The race for coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide
News: If a coronavirus vaccine arrives, can the world make enough?
25:20 One good thing
Our hosts pick out things that have made them smile in the last week, including hopeful antibody research, at-home sketch comedy and printable board games.
News: Potent human antibodies could inspire a vaccine
Video: Whiskers R we - SNL
Video:The wild affordable world of 1 Player Print’n’Play Games
Video:MORE of the Very Best Solitaire Print'n'Play Games
Video: Marble run league
Video: BBC goals at home (Only available in the UK)
30:04 The latest coronavirus research papers
Noah Baker takes a look through some of the key coronavirus papers of the last few weeks.
News: Coronavirus research updates
medRxiv: Saliva is more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharangel swabs
Nature: Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China
Science: Changes in contact patterns shape the dynamics of the COVID-19 outbreak in China
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| 0:00.0 | Whiz? Flying visit to London. |
| 0:03.0 | Sandy! I'm staying over tonight. |
| 0:05.3 | Got a great discount on a hotel and a West End show with SWR rewards. |
| 0:09.9 | Oh, didn't take you for a culture, vulture? |
| 0:12.5 | When the deal's this good, you could say it's two birds with one stone. |
| 0:17.7 | Waze! |
| 0:19.7 | Book trains direct to claim your SWR reward and make every trip a treat. |
| 0:25.4 | T's and C's apply subject to availability. |
| 0:27.7 | Southwestern Railway. |
| 0:29.0 | Spread your wings. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to Corona Pod. |
| 0:35.5 | In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments. |
| 0:41.4 | And we'll be speaking to experts around the world about research during the pandemic. |
| 0:47.8 | I really don't know how this plays out. We also don't know a ton about this, you know, virus. |
| 0:52.3 | So there's so many open questions. I just have a really |
| 0:54.7 | hard time making predictions because I don't know how the outbreak is going to change. |
| 1:02.1 | Hello, and welcome to episode 10 of CoronaPod. My name's Noah Baker, and I'm joined as ever |
| 1:08.4 | by reporter extraordinaire, Amy Maximon, but Benjamin Thompson |
| 1:12.3 | is not here this week. In his place is a new voice that you might not have heard before, |
| 1:17.3 | Richard Van Norton. Richard, why don't you start off by telling people who you are and what your last |
| 1:22.1 | two months have been like? Hi, no, hi Amy. Yes, I'm a feature editor at Nature, so I've been commissioning a lot of long stories about the coronavirus, |
| 1:33.2 | and I've also been coordinating some of our coronavirus coverage. So it has been frenetic and very, very busy, |
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