We're almost six months into the pandemic.

How close are we to the cure we also desperately want?

There are dozens and dozens of teams around the world.

I mean, pretty much every pharmaceutical company is looking at this.

I talked to a journalist who has taken the personal gamble of becoming a participant in one of the

hundreds of trials happening around the world to find a vaccine for COVID-19.

There was a theoretical risk that the vaccine could prove not only ineffective,

it could actually worsen the symptoms of COVID if you were to catch it.

But what's the news on how these vaccine trials are going?

How soon might we get one if at all?

And how long would it take to produce enough on scale

to save millions of lives and get the world back to work?

You're listening to stories of our times

from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm David Erronovich. Today, vaccine on trial. Oh, hello. Can you hear me? Hi, hello. Is that Jack? Yes it is, hello, can you hear me? Hi, hello.

Is that Jack?

Yes, it is. Hello.

Oh, hi, Jack, it's David here.

How you doing? I'm doing well, how are you doing?

Yeah, I'm really good.

Thanks for doing this.

We're both missing Dominic Cummings.

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