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Science Vs

Coronavirus: Shots! Shots! Shots!

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.412.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

There’s a ton of hoopla over these new coronavirus vaccines. But given that they’ve been produced at warp speed — can we trust them? We also find out what’s going on with “long haulers.” How common is it to be sick for months from Covid-19? Plus, fresh new science about why some young people land in the hospital. We talk to Dr. Katy Stephenson, Dr. Alexander Hoischen, Dr. Jeffrey Siegelman, and Prof. Tim Spector.  Link to transcript: https://bit.ly/37vYvT3 This episode was produced by Rose Rimler, NickDelRose, and Wendy Zukerman with help from Michelle Dang, and Hannah Harris Green. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell with help from Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard, Marcus Bagala, Emma Munger, and Bobby Lord. Thanks to everyone we got in touch with for this episode including Dr. Cleo Anastassopoulou, Dr. Cas van der Made, Prof. Joel Ray, Dr. Nicholas Tatonetti, Michael Zietz, Prof. Torben Barrington, Dr. Emma Pierson, Professor Peter Wark, Dr. Jennifer Dan, Dr. Natalie Lambert, Dr. Benjamin Abramoff and others. And special thanks to the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlet.

0:04.0

This is the show that pits facts against.

0:09.0

Finally, some light at the end of the tunnel.

0:12.0

A sign of hope in a year that's been built with doubt and desperation.

0:24.0

There's been some very exciting news about a vaccine on the horizon.

0:28.0

Pfizer announced that their coronavirus vaccine is more than 90% effective.

0:33.0

Now it's showing it's 95% effective.

0:36.0

We're hearing that clinical trials have been super successful and it's all go go go go go.

0:42.0

People in the UK can start getting the Pfizer vaccine early next week.

0:46.0

The first Americans could be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as December 11th.

0:52.0

But before we pop the champagne.

0:55.0

Happy vaccine day.

0:57.0

There's been some questions about these vaccines like AstraZeneca's.

1:02.0

These are thousands of people who got the wrong dosage that in itself is a huge problem.

1:07.0

So what do we know about how well these vaccines really work?

1:12.0

And can we trust that they're safe despite being churned out at warp speed?

1:17.0

That's one thing we're finding out today.

1:19.0

Plus, we're finally getting answers about why some super healthy people land in the hospital

1:25.0

or stay sick for months and months after getting COVID.

1:28.0

These so called long haulers living at nightmare every day.

1:34.0

So what is going on here?

1:37.0

While a lot of us have been sitting at home on our butts watching that chess show on Netflix,

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