Covid-19: 1 Year Later w/Jessica Brinkworth

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 141 minutes

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In this episode of Here We Are, Shane talks with return guest Jessica Brinkworth about covid-19 and what we’ve learned over the past year. They discuss the history of vaccine technologies, the current covid-19 vaccines and how they work, as well as the things we’ve learned since the start of the virus in 2020. Jessica Brinkworth is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research addresses the physiological consequences of the human experience and evolutionary past, particularly those that affect innate immune system function. Jessica’s current projects focus on the functional divergence and diversification of primate immune systems, how past epidemics affect present day immune function diversity and how life experience affects the innate immune response. To hear Jessica’s first appearance on Here We Are check out episode 295: The Human Immune System. Thank you for watching and being an inquisitive being. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show. Everybody talking a lot about vaccines today. A touchy subject for a lot of
0:06.6	people and I just want to thank my guest so much for making a return visit and all my guests that
0:12.1	have come on here to talk about COVID. I've been so generous with their time and you know,
0:18.2	we don't talk about this really on the on the show. So I just wanted to share some kind of behind
0:24.0	the scenes stuff that happens just so you know how much I appreciate and I hope it makes you appreciate
0:30.3	what these what these scientists that are working to make the world a better place are doing and
0:39.4	and just how generous they are to come on some dumb comics podcast and I can tell you from
0:46.0	having a science podcast for six and a half years now that never never and in the entire you
0:54.0	know, other than you know, maybe science not being people's cup of tea and wanting it to be
1:00.6	funny or something like that because they're expecting because I'm a comedian. I'm going to be like
1:05.2	wacky punchlines the whole time or something like that and it's not what they expect outside of
1:10.2	that. Never get any I've never gotten any um this butterfly researcher. They don't know their
1:18.2	butterflies. You they don't know anything about aerodynamics never never once but when there's
1:29.0	a problem that requires us having to confront reality. So much of this is just done in the background
1:36.0	you don't have to worry about you don't have to be mindful of of so many of of the what goes
1:43.9	into putting together something like a vaccine to analyzing the data of COVID and and figuring out
1:52.1	you know long-term effects and things like that and trying to make the world a better place and
1:58.4	until that confronts people all the sun it's weird it's different it's it's it's it's uh something
2:06.0	that they actually might have to take action all the sudden people that normally don't you know
2:16.1	never taken a bother to listen to this show previously or taken an online course for themselves
2:24.8	or had any interest in science all the sudden they become experts in a hurry and I don't I'm not
2:34.4	blaming people I am frustrated you know at this point I'm a year in and I'm frustrated I'm going
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