Into the Team Racing Toward a Vaccine

Into America

Trymaine Lee, MS NOW

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🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The head of the NIH’s Vaccine Research Center takes us inside the search for a COVID-19 vaccine.

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0:00.0	We've been hearing for weeks that a vaccine for coronavirus is what's needed before life
0:10.5	returns to some type of normalcy.
0:13.1	But under normal circumstances, vaccine development is a long, complex process.
0:18.4	According to research from the National Institutes of Health, the average vaccine has a development
0:23.3	timeline of more than 10 years.
0:26.9	Dr. Anthony Fauci works for NIH as the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and
0:31.9	Infectious Diseases.
0:33.4	He said that it could take up to 18 months to come up with a vaccine for coronavirus.
0:38.3	More than 65,000 people have already died from COVID-19, and that number is rising.
0:45.6	We don't have any time to waste.
0:50.7	I'm Tremayne Lee and this is Into America.
0:54.1	Today, I have the chance to talk to the man who's leading the race to end the pandemic, Dr. John
0:59.6	Mascola.
1:01.1	Dr. Mascola is the Director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health.
1:06.4	He works under Dr. Fauci, and his team is hard at work trying to stop the virus that
1:11.0	has stopped so many of us in our tracks.
1:13.3	Dr. Mascola, thanks so much for taking time to speak to me today.
1:21.8	I really appreciate it.
1:23.2	I'm happy to do it, Tremayne.
1:24.8	I don't think a lot of us actually know how vaccines work.
1:28.2	So could we start there, give us a simple explanation of how vaccines work?
1:33.9	Sure.
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