Jeffrey Flier, Former Dean of Harvard Medical School, on This Week’s Good News About the Hunt for a COVID-19 Vaccine

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🗓️ 14 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Jeffrey Flier—physician, endocrinologist, researcher, and 21st Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University—speaks to Quillette’s Jonathan Kay about Pfizer’s recent announcement that its candidate COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be more than 90% effective in preliminary testing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
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0:33.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast.
0:35.8	I'm Jonathan Kay.
0:37.6	It feels like it's been all bad news when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic of late, but this
0:42.1	past week brought some good news as Pfizer, in conjunction
0:45.4	with the German company, announced promising results for their candidate vaccine in early testing.
0:51.0	By one announced measure, compared to a placebo, the candidate vaccine achieved a 90%
0:56.2	protection rate.
0:57.2	What's more, Pfizer announced that it has the capability to produce the vaccine on a large
1:01.8	scale. Following on this good news,
1:04.1	former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flyer wrote an article for Colette entitled
1:09.4	It's Still Early Days, but Pfizer's stunning vaccine results could be a real game changer.
1:14.1	Following the publication of his article, Dr. Flyer spoke to me for the Colette
1:18.4	podcast. Here are excerpts from our conversation.
1:24.0	There are all sorts of viruses and some stubbornly resist vaccine treatment for decades, HIV being
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