Summary
Adam meets the pharma giants making 2 billion doses of Coronavirus vaccine.
The race is still on to find a Coronavirus vaccine - but what will it look like, and how will we get hold of it? Adam finds out from Sir Mene Pangalos and Pam Cheng from pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Ben Weiz, Frankie Tobi and Natalie Ktena Assistant Editor: Emma Close Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | James, you're going to love this. |
| 0:06.0 | I have just done a really long in-depth interview with two of the senior people from |
| 0:11.7 | AstraZeneca who are going to be making the Oxford vaccine. |
| 0:16.0 | And you didn't invite me? |
| 0:18.0 | Well, I'm going to tell you some of the highlights. |
| 0:20.0 | So one of the people we spoke to was many Pangolos, who is their executive vice president for |
| 0:26.1 | bio pharmaceuticals research and development. |
| 0:29.4 | And this is what he said about how their vaccine will actually work in the real world. |
| 0:34.9 | Well it looks right now that the most effective dose in terms of immunogenicity |
| 0:39.8 | so that immune response we've been talking about is a two-dose schedule so a person |
| 0:44.4 | is vaccinated with the first dose and then a few weeks later they're vaccinated with the |
| 0:48.6 | second dose and then hopefully that immune response will last for at least 12 months or longer. |
| 0:54.8 | But given how contagious this virus is and how much it spreads around the world, |
| 0:59.6 | I think anything that can protect you from the disease, becoming sick from going into hospital, I think |
| 1:05.8 | will be a big step forwards for the world. |
| 1:08.9 | Two bombshells for me there, one that it will be a double-dose jab, you'll have to get it twice for it to work, and then if it does work, it might only protect you for a year. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, I had a Roger Moore eyebrow raising moment when the 12 months came up there because the researchers |
| 1:23.8 | the scientists have been working on this vaccine aren't even saying that the |
| 1:26.7 | vaccine offers any protection at all so to even get a whiff of how long they're |
| 1:30.0 | expecting it to last for that's really interesting. We have had some subtle |
| 1:34.8 | hints that it might have to be two doses because that came from the early trial |
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