Moderna Medicine
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Pharmaceutical company Moderna entered phase three trials of its Covid-19 vaccine, and plans to test the efficacy of their drug on 30,000 healthy participants. The director of the NIH said they plan to reach out to communities that have been hardest hit by the virus to form that sample group.
Major League Baseball has already announced that it’s postponing two games after players and coaches tested positive for Covid-19. Vietnam moved to evacuate 80,000 tourists from one city after a man there tested positive for the virus.
And in headlines: Kyrie Irving commits to cover salaries of WNBA athletes, Chainsmokers wreak havoc in the Hamptons, and Melania Trump’s goth rose garden.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, July 28th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what the day where we are organizing the first ever |
| 0:12.0 | boat parade for Joe Biden. |
| 0:13.6 | Yeah, I won't be in attendance, but I will definitely be watching all you people with |
| 0:17.8 | your boats. |
| 0:18.8 | Go off. |
| 0:19.8 | I have a Zoom link ready to go for those who want to participate. |
| 0:23.7 | It is joviden.com slash boat party. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, vaccines and a handful of other pandemic news from the MLB to Google |
| 0:39.5 | then some headlines. |
| 0:41.0 | But first the latest. |
| 0:42.6 | I've always wanted to lose weight for ages and ages and I, like many people, I struggle |
| 0:48.4 | with my way go up and down. |
| 0:50.4 | But since I recovered from coronavirus, I've been steadily building up my fitness. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay, so that was UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson launching a new anti obesity campaign |
| 1:02.8 | yesterday, which he hopes will help protect his country against coronavirus. |
| 1:07.1 | Okay, real, real just random thought. |
| 1:11.8 | But Johnson opened up about his own fitness routine, which includes a quote, quiet gentle |
| 1:16.3 | run with his dog, quite a turnaround from his pre-coronus self. |
| 1:20.5 | But in other news, while Republicans are presenting their very delayed coronavirus relief package |
| 1:24.3 | in Congress, which is something we'll follow up on later this week, the race to develop |
| 1:28.6 | a coronavirus vaccine hit a critical step yesterday as the company Moderna entered its phase |
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