How to develop a vaccine — quickly and ethically

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Carolyn Johnson reports on the race to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus and how it could pit countries against one another. Ben Guarino on why bioethicists are thinking hard about coronavirus vaccine testing. And Maura Judkis on why so many people are convinced that they had covid-19 already.

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0:00.0	This Post Reports podcast is brought to you by Facebook.
0:07.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post,
0:11.0	it's Robert Samuels from the Washington Post.
0:13.0	Post is Sarah Kaplan.
0:15.0	Hi, this is Elaheer Zadi with the Washington Post.
0:18.0	This is Post Reports.
0:20.0	I'm Martine Powers.
0:23.0	It's Monday, June 22.
0:27.0	Today, the race for a COVID vaccine and the ethical questions it brings up,
0:33.0	plus finding comfort in think I had at I.D.S.
0:41.0	There are at least eight candidate COVID-19 vaccines in clinical development.
0:49.0	Since the beginning of the pandemic, there is one question that people have been asking over and over.
0:56.0	When will we have a vaccine?
0:58.0	You might recall in this committee that in January of this year,
1:02.0	I said that it would take about one year to 18 months if we were successful in developing a vaccine.
1:10.0	You've heard timelines from 12 to 18 months.
1:13.0	You've heard maybe this fall some could be available.
1:17.0	But you know, we're just starting the testing of this in humans and we need to get that information
1:22.0	before we know the timeline, whether we even know if it works.
1:26.0	Carolyn Johnson covers science for the post.
1:29.0	One way of thinking about it is that we are moving faster than has ever been done in history.
1:35.0	Basically, on January 10th, Chinese researchers shared the genome of a mysterious new coronavirus that was giving people pneumonia
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