Coronavirus: A Vaccine Maker Gets Personal

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We get a look inside the mind of Tal Zaks, the Chief Medical Officer at Moderna, as the company develops and tests what it hopes will become the first successful vaccine against the coronavirus. For more episodes like this, subscribe to If I Don’t See You on Stitcher Premium.

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0:00.0	This is an historic time.
0:04.0	This is going to be a multi-year fight.
0:08.0	Why is it taking so long to get a screening test?
0:11.0	It is not a hoax, it is real.
0:13.0	Something that we have never experienced before.
0:15.0	Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.
0:18.0	I mean you're the scientist, you're gonna have to tell me.
0:23.0	Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.
0:26.0	I'm your host, Bill Nye, and this is the series
0:28.0	that brings you the latest analysis and the science of this pandemic
0:32.0	so that you can stay informed, prepared, and calm.
0:37.0	We're still all in this together, my friends,
0:39.0	with more than 400,000 new cases nationwide just last week.
0:44.0	It seems that we are definitely in the midst of the dreaded fall wave of COVID-19.
0:49.0	And what we keep on wearing our masks, washing our hands and socially distancing,
0:54.0	drug companies around the world are working on the vaccine.
0:58.0	We need to maybe, just maybe, someday, get back to normal.
1:03.0	So this week we're doing something a little different.
1:06.0	Our friends at Stitcher's Witness Docs have been talking to TALZACs,
1:11.0	the chief medical officer at Moderna.
1:14.0	Since May, as part of their series called If I Don't See You,
1:18.0	the conversation gives us the inside story
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