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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Inside a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

All around the world, scientific research has been put on hold to concentrate resources on one thing: a vaccine for COVID-19. The usual red tape that slows down these experiments has been removed. And at a lab in Baltimore, researchers are working around the clock to recruit trial participants, prepare vaccine doses, and study results.  Guest: Dr. Kirsten Lyke, lead investigator on COVID-19 vaccine trials at the University of Maryland’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.3

When I called up Dr. Kirsten Lik, she'd set aside precisely 30 minutes for us to talk.

0:33.6

She ended up giving me 38.

0:35.5

But still, she was in a hurry.

0:37.7

Were you just doing vaccinations a couple hours ago?

0:41.4

I was doing vaccinations about 120 seconds ago, actually, two minutes ago, and I just ran

0:49.6

over from the vaccination area.

0:52.4

Kirsten is running one of the coronavirus vaccine trials that have cropped up around

0:56.1

the country.

0:57.1

Her lab's at the University of Maryland, and this work, it's not like any other experiment

1:02.2

she's run before.

1:03.8

Her vaccines are at the very earliest phase of human testing.

1:06.7

It's called phase one.

1:08.4

You know, a straightforward phase one study is usually 40 people, 40-50 people, 40 subjects

1:16.7

or like 40 scientists.

1:18.5

40 to 50 subjects, volunteers who agreed to participate.

1:24.9

And it may take anywhere from 12 to 18 months, from the time we decide to do a study to ramp

1:34.9

it up.

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