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Welcome to the second in our series of coronavirus episodes of Scientific American Science

Talk posted on March 14th, 2020.

I'm Steve Merski.

And as in our first episode, I'll be throwing it over to W. Waite Gibbs.

He's a contributing editor for Scientific American based in Seattle.

He also works as a scientific editor at Intellectual Ventures.

For this edition, Gibbs spoke with a pediatric infectious disease expert

about work on new vaccines and drugs for COVID-19

and the role that children play in disease transmission.

Gibbs also talked with the head of infection control

for one of the country's largest networks of cancer centers

about the special steps being taken to protect cancer patients

and others whose immune systems aren't functioning at full strength

and who suddenly find themselves at increased risk.

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