Is There a Vaccine Shortcut?

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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There’s promising news around a vaccine, but what does it mean? And should we speed up its development with ‘challenge trials’ by letting vaccinated people be exposed to the virus? Infectious disease expert Dr. Stephen Thomas returns to the show to discuss the medical and ethical issues. Also, Katherine faces a minor challenge of her own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Catherine. Well, hello Jim. How you doing? How many cookies today?
0:09.1	So I made cookies this weekend and I ate them already,
0:15.0	although I did save some dough and I have it in the fridge.
0:17.1	So I could have some like frozen dough,
0:18.8	but I guess the answer to your question is I haven't had any cookies today.
0:23.0	You're not dealing with the flower shortage?
0:24.8	I haven't encountered the flower shortage.
0:27.2	Where are these people going?
0:28.2	I don't know.
0:29.2	We should ask Amanda about that.
0:30.9	Because it seems like everyone's baking baking but I'm also hearing that
0:33.2	flower is more valuable than gold. Yeah. It's the things you take for granted you
0:38.0	know? Like flower? Like hand sanitizer and flower? Do you want to know a sad story about hand sanitizer and flower.
0:42.8	Do you want to know a sad story about hand sanitizer?
0:45.3	Yes.
0:47.3	I, so at the beginning of this, you know, a hand sanitizer was like nowhere to be found.
0:51.2	You couldn't find it.
0:52.2	It didn't exist. And I went to the
0:55.2	hardware store and they had it. And I got this like box of Purell. It was $20. I remember this. And I've had it the whole time. So the
1:09.8	thing is the box is designed to go in like a soap dispenser.
1:17.0	Oh, right. It's like a clinical hand sanitizer.
1:21.0	It's like a plastic bag with this strange tube coming out of it. Yeah.
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