Coronavirus Front Line: The search for a vaccine

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Over the last few months the race has been on to create and test a vaccine for Covid -19. Over 200 are in development and some are now licensed and given to protect some of the most vulnerable in society and those caring for them. Winifred Robinson has been alongside medical teams at a UK hospital recording as events unfold. She tracks vaccine development through the trial stages and examines what happens when it comes to eventual distribution.

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Winifred Robinson and this is the first of two programs, the coronavirus
0:08.0	frontline, the search for a vaccine.
0:10.0	Follow me?
0:12.0	Okay, so what's going to happen is you're booking here and then take a consent form, sign a consent form.
0:21.0	So you're to this desk here and you can check in, but you can sit down. In 2020 right across the world the race has been on to create and test a vaccine for COVID-19.
0:32.0	Over 200 are in development with 30 now in clinical trials
0:37.0	being tested on hundreds of thousands of volunteers.
0:40.3	And then into a room injection injection, wait 50 minutes.
0:44.0	And off a door.
0:45.0	Oke-dartie.
0:47.0	So just explain what we're going to do, we'll give you an injection in your arm here.
0:50.0	Anything is to relax.
0:51.0	If you want to relax even more, just give your fingers if you want to, okay?
0:55.0	Is that all right?
0:57.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:58.0	From the start of the pandemic, BBC Radio has been following the lives of medical staff and their patients in Bradford.
1:05.0	It's a city in the north of England with high levels of deprivation and poor health.
1:10.0	20% of the population are of Pakistani heritage in the poorest areas 70%.
1:16.0	This program is part of a series for the BBC World Service.
1:20.0	Most of what you'll hear has been recorded by Dr John Wright, an expert on infectious diseases and how they spread.
1:27.0	He's worked in Africa in epidemics of Ebola and HIV, now he works at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
1:33.0	Dr Wright has been coordinating the response to COVID
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