COVID-19 Chapter 5: Vaccines
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🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Chapter 5 of our Anatomy of a Pandemic series covering all things COVID-19 goes through some of the exciting developments in potential vaccines for this new virus. Starting us off is an anonymous account describing the challenges faced by someone in the US trying to get tested for COVID-19. Then we review some of the basics of vaccines - how they work, the different kinds, and some of the challenges in accelerating the vaccine development pipeline during a crisis such as this. We sought the expert knowledge of Dr. M. Elena Bottazzi (interview recorded March 17, 2020), who is part of a group that is currently working on developing a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. She answers a number of your vaccine- and treatment-related questions and sheds some light on the prospects of vaccine development for this particular disease. We wrap up again by going through the top five things we learned from our expert. To help you get a better idea of the topics covered in this episode, we have listed the questions below:
- What makes this virus a good candidate for a vaccine? (11:05)
- Why is it more difficult these days to produce completely protective vaccines vs partially protective vaccines? (13:29)
- How is the vaccine that your group is working on made, what is its target and how does it work? (16:02)
- What is the timeline of vaccine development, testing, deployment, and how soon might we see an effective vaccine for SARS-CoV-2? (21:19)
- What steps of this development process can be shortened to get an 'early release' of a vaccine? (25:49)
- It seems we are better at developing vaccines than we are antivirals; why is this? (28:55)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Justin from The Generation Y, and we're doing a four-part series |
| 0:03.7 | on rambling the story of Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack |
| 0:08.7 | and held at Rikers Island for three years without trial. This story is about a young life caught |
| 0:14.4 | in the middle of the justice system, listened to Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your |
| 0:19.2 | podcast. My husband was exposed to a person who was later positively diagnosed with COVID-19, |
| 0:26.0 | although that person has remained asymptomatic. My husband and I have been self-quarantine |
| 0:30.5 | in our home since we found out that person had tested positive. We are in our early 30s and |
| 0:35.6 | are not worried for ourselves but do not want to risk spreading this disease to anyone else. |
| 0:40.5 | My husband began developing mild symptoms two days ago and I began developing mild symptoms |
| 0:44.8 | last night. We are both experiencing shortness of breath, chest congestion, cough, mild fever, |
| 0:50.4 | and general body ache. Our case manager with the Public Health Department spent most of the afternoon |
| 0:55.6 | fighting to get test ordered for us. When we called urgent care to say we were coming, they told |
| 1:00.8 | us to stay home. They agreed to see us when we explained that the Health Department told us to |
| 1:05.8 | get tested at our nearest urgent care. The Washington Post is reporting that sick people across the |
| 1:11.2 | country are being denied coronavirus testing. If my husband had not been exposed to a confirmed case, |
| 1:17.1 | I believe we also would have been denied. How will we know who has the sickness if testing is not |
| 1:22.4 | widely available? Our urgent care appointment was incredibly frustrating. The nurse met us at a |
| 1:28.5 | side door with masks. We were there for nearly two hours and no one seemed to know how to treat us. |
| 1:34.4 | What protective gear they were supposed to wear, what questions to ask us. The nurse took off |
| 1:39.3 | her face shield while in the room with us to make it easier to see the computer. We overheard her say |
| 1:45.1 | she has pneumonia. Why was a nurse with pneumonia assigned to us? We were there for nearly two hours |
| 1:51.8 | and the whole time could hear people outside of our room asking one another what to do. Someone |
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