Mice Lie and Monkeys Exaggerate

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Several vaccine companies have announced promising early evidence that their vaccines are effective at preventing symptoms of a coronavirus infection. So what comes next? CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks to vaccine creator and virology and immunology expert, Dr. Paul Offit about what it takes to get an idea for a vaccine from in the lab into the bodies of people around the world. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was thinking about this last night.
0:04.5	After months of following the latest news in the pandemic, I think we're all starting
0:08.8	to feel a little bit like infectious disease experts ourselves.
0:13.7	Terms that would have been totally unfamiliar to us a year ago are now part of our daily
0:18.3	conversation.
0:19.3	PPE.
0:20.3	Are not.
0:22.3	Herd immunity.
0:24.0	Spike protein.
0:25.8	But as vaccines once again move front and center in the news, I thought we could return
0:30.7	to a process that does remain a bit of a mystery.
0:34.1	How does a vaccine get made from start to finish?
0:37.8	What are the challenges that researchers must overcome to get ticklinical trials?
0:42.7	When does the FDA get involved?
0:44.8	And maybe most importantly, where do the current coronavirus vaccine candidates stand in this
0:50.4	whole process?
0:52.2	So today, I decided to sit down and talk to someone who's been through every step of
0:56.8	the vaccine process himself.
0:59.4	Dr. Paul Offit.
1:01.3	He's one of the creators of a vaccine that protects millions of children around the world
1:06.4	from rotavirus.
1:08.4	In addition to seeing his own vaccine through the approval process, he's also been on another
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