Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint

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🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his editorial on preventing vaccine hesitancy during the coronavirus pandemic. Even before the current crisis, fear of vaccines had become a global problem, with the World Health Organization naming it as one of the top 10 worldwide health threats in 2019. Now, it seems increasingly possible that many people will refuse to get vaccinated. What can public health officials and researchers do to get ahead of this issue? Also this week, Sarah talks with Science Senior Correspondent Jon Cohen about his story on Chinese scientist Shi Zhengli, the bat researcher at the center of the COVID-19 origins controversy—and why she thinks President Donald Trump owes her an apology. Finally, Geert Van der Snickt, a professor in the conservation-restoration department at the University of Antwerp, talks with Sarah about his Science Advances paper on a new process for peering into the past of paintings. His team used a combination of techniques to look beneath an overpainting on the Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck—a pivotal piece that showed the potential of oil paints and even included an early example of painting from an aerial view. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: van der Snickt et al., Science Advances 2020; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.
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0:18.0	Researchers at Icon Mount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many fields vital
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0:29.3	neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
0:34.5	we find a way. Welcome to the science podcast for July 31st,
0:45.4	2020. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week, Science's editor-in-chief Holden Thorpe joins us to talk
0:51.6	about coronavirus vaccines. Where are we now, what needs to happen
0:55.6	next, and how to make sure people will be willing to get a vaccine when it becomes available.
1:01.1	Next, senior correspondent John Cohen talks with me about a researcher who's found herself
1:05.7	at the center of the coronavirus origins controversy, and why she says Donald Trump owes her an apology.
1:12.7	Finally, researcher Gert van der Snick discusses his science advances paper about a new process used
1:18.5	to uncover the original painting in an important piece of artwork completed in 1432.
1:33.6	First up this week we have, Science is editor-in-chief Holden Thorpe.
1:37.4	He wrote an editorial on coronavirus vaccines this week.
1:38.2	Hi, Holden.
1:38.8	Hi, Sarah.
1:39.6	Great to be with you.
1:42.3	So your editorial starts with the positive.
1:44.2	What's the good news?
1:48.3	Well, the good news is that in just a short period of time, since we got the sequence of the novel coronavirus,
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