COVID-19: How to Vaccinate a Planet

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, the search for a vaccine for COVID-19: will we succeed, and when? Plus, in the news, the search for a chemical fingerprint for severe COVID-19, bacteria that live inside cancers, and could something in your genes make coronavirus harder to deal with... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:04.3	Hello.
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0:08.3	Science and that is the same physics medicine,, or big time, the brain, life, the universe.
0:17.0	Hello, welcome to the naked scientists,
0:19.0	the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine with me Adam Murphy and with
0:24.0	Chris Smith.
0:25.0	This week a vaccine for COVID-19, but will we succeed and when?
0:30.8	Plus in the news, the search for a chemical fingerprint for COVID-19
0:34.0	bacteria that can live inside cancers and could there be something in your genes that
0:39.3	would make COVID-19 harder to deal with.
0:41.6	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:47.0	Now first up it's been a good news bad news kind of week in the coronavirus
0:58.0	pandemic we've seen the launch in England of the test and trace system this is
1:02.1	aimed at isolating the contacts of
1:04.0	COVID-19 positive individuals and it should, if it works smoothly, go some way
1:08.5	towards suppressing the spread of the virus. But we've also had some bad news
1:12.2	about one of the drugs,
1:13.2	hydroxychloroquine that was being hailed as a possible treatment.
1:17.0	More on that story shortly, but first, lo, let's begin on a more positive note
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