Inside a Vaccine Clinical Trial
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Dozens of research teams across the world are racing to deliver a vaccine for the coronavirus. Developing, testing and bringing a vaccine to market is a process that usually takes years, even decades. But that process is being ramped up to warp speed as the virus ravages the globe. A small group of volunteers is already receiving an experimental vaccine. Jason Gale spoke to one of them, and gives us a peek inside the fast-moving world of coronavirus vaccine development.
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| 0:34.5 | Welcome to Prognosis. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Laura Carlson. |
| 0:40.3 | It's day 56 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:46.3 | Our main story? |
| 0:48.3 | The world is watching closely as drug companies rates to make a vaccine at warp speed. |
| 0:55.6 | What does that race actually look like close up? |
| 0:59.7 | A participant in one of the earliest vaccine clinical trials tells us what he's learning. |
| 1:06.4 | But first, here's what happened today. President Donald Trump says the U.S. must reopen for business, even if more Americans get sick and die. |
| 1:30.8 | The president said at an event in Arizona that he knows restarting state economies will cause |
| 1:36.3 | more illness and death from the pandemic, but insists it's a cost he's willing to pay to get the |
| 1:43.3 | economy back on track. |
| 1:46.5 | As governors across the South and Midwest have begun returning people to work, |
| 1:52.2 | Trump said he's pivoting to phase two of the nation's response to the pandemic. |
| 1:58.6 | Phase two originally included disbanding the White House coronavirus task force, |
| 2:04.4 | something the White House said in statements Tuesday it was considering doing. |
| 2:09.5 | But today, Trump reversed himself, saying the task force will continue indefinitely. |
| 2:17.3 | In a series of tweets this morning, the president said the task force will continue indefinitely. In a series of tweets this morning, the president |
| 2:20.0 | said the task force will continue with a focus on reopening the country, as well as the |
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