Cosmic Queries – COVID-19 Vaccines

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🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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When will there be a COVID-19 vaccine? Is COVID-19 here to stay? How do vaccines work? Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Paul Mecurio, and vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit, MD, answer fan-submitted questions on COVID-19 and vaccines.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk, Cosmic Queries, a special edition on vaccines.
0:22.0	My co-host Paul MacKurio, are you ready for this one?
0:25.0	I am ready. I feel sick already.
0:27.0	You're ready for this one, then.
0:31.0	Go ahead.
0:33.0	I'll go ahead.
0:35.0	Of course, neither of us have any expertise in this at all other than reading about it in the papers.
0:41.0	We found one of the best, if not the best, at this.
0:45.0	Dr. Paul, off it.
0:46.0	Paul, welcome to Star Talk.
0:48.0	Thank you. Thanks for asking me.
0:49.0	Yeah, so I looked at your pedigree here, director of the Vaccine Education Center,
0:55.0	and Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Disease at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
1:02.0	So you're the man for this episode.
1:06.0	I'm not exaggerating here, correct?
1:09.0	I think I'm a man.
1:11.0	No, you're a d-man.
1:14.0	A-man. Before we get to our abundant questions that have been submitted to us by our fanbase,
1:20.0	on all manner of our social media platforms,
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