Coronavirus Vaccine: Finding Immunity Faster Without Animals
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The key to developing a successful coronavirus vaccine likely lies in those who have already survived the virus. That is the opinion of Dr. John Pippin who joins , "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room™ podcast to talk about fast-tracked efforts to develop a vaccine without testing on animals.
Dr. Pippin explains how bypassing usually mandatory animal testing may lead to a viable vaccine becoming available years sooner than it otherwise would be. Moving directly to human trials would also save countless animal lives and save developers millions of dollars in expenses. Potentially those savings would lead to lower costs for the medication.
With such promise, could the future of all drug testing become animal free? That is what Chuck and Dr. Pippin will explore.
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| 0:00.0 | But it would open the public's mind the fact that, well, wait a minute, not only is this |
| 0:04.9 | animal testing not given us the answers we want, not only is it wasting decades and many |
| 0:10.4 | billions of dollars, but it looks like we don't need it. |
| 0:14.3 | It looks like it's not contributing at all to the information we need to fight these things. |
| 0:28.5 | Well, hello there and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:34.3 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:37.5 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen or a view or a download wherever it |
| 0:43.0 | is in the world that you are. |
| 0:45.3 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:50.7 | And we're going to start today by posing a question. |
| 0:54.9 | Is the key to finding a successful vaccine for COVID-19 found in those who have already |
| 1:03.0 | survived the virus? |
| 1:06.0 | That is what we'll be exploring today is Dr. John Pippen joins us on the show. |
| 1:10.6 | He spends his days researching and promoting the most effective methods of drug development, |
| 1:17.2 | none of which, by the way, involve animal testing. |
| 1:20.8 | And so with that in mind, we are going to discuss one of the vaccine trials currently underway |
| 1:25.6 | that went straight to testing on humans. |
| 1:30.3 | Now according to Dr. Pippen, not only does this fast track the creation of a COVID-19 vaccine |
| 1:36.5 | potentially by years, but it's also more efficient because the results achieved in animal |
| 1:43.3 | testing very rarely translate to success in humans. |
| 1:49.4 | So many believe that not only is it unfair for animals, but it's also driving up the cost |
| 1:56.4 | of development by millions of dollars. |
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