How the Vaccines Will Change Our Lives

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Nine vaccines have proved effective at protecting people from developing symptoms of Covid-19. But we don’t know yet how good they are at preventing asymptomatic infections, and keeping vaccinated people from passing the virus on to others. The good news is that preliminary signs suggest they do at least some of both. Jason Gale discusses what we’re learning about how the shots work, as vaccination campaigns continue around the world.

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0:33.3	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 345 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:43.1	Today's main story, we're learning more and more about how well vaccines are working as millions of shots get doled out every day.
0:53.3	How soon will we be able to get back to normal life and when
0:57.4	can we say we've beaten the pandemic? But first, here's what happened in virus news today. The U.S. is approaching an ugly milestone.
1:20.8	Few imagined when the first COVID-19 cases were diagnosed a year ago.
1:26.5	500,000 deaths.
1:29.5	That mark is likely to be reached in the next few days,
1:33.3	depending on whose count is used.
1:36.0	Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci called the number
1:39.6	terrible and historic on NBC's Meet the Press.
1:45.1	He said, while the recent decline in case counts is good, it doesn't signal that we're
1:51.0	approaching herd immunity.
1:53.5	New findings in the UK, the first country in the Western world to roll out COVID-19 vaccines,
1:59.6	show the shots provide a high level of protection
2:03.3	against infection and illness after a single dose. According to initial data in a study of medical
2:10.4	workers, one dose of the Pfizer and Bio-Entech vaccine reduces the risk of infection by more than 70%.
2:19.4	And that number goes up to 85% after the second dose.
2:25.4	The report adds to evidence that vaccinations are already having a significant impact in countries
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