Not So Fast: Creating A COVID-19 Vaccine Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

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The race for a COVID-19 vaccine is underway. But don’t hold your breath. This race could take years. We’ll tell you why, and what’s being done to try to speed up the process. Also: you may have seen some headlines this week about COVID-19 and children. New research shows kids are more at risk of getting sick than realized. On top of that: a mysterious illness that could be linked to COVID-19 is infecting children around the country. We’ll break down what this means for parents on the lookout. And finally, you asked and we Skimm’d: why is it taking so long to get your stimulus check? Hint: you may need to check your mailbox. On this episode, you’ll hear from: Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi, co-director of Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and Associate Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine Dr. Rinke Bos, Principal Scientist at Janssen Vaccines & Prevention in Leiden, the Netherlands Dr. Roderick Slavcev, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo Dr. Lawrence Kleinman, professor and vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and attending physician at Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital What’s something about the COVID-19 pandemic that you’ve been looking for more answers on? Call and leave us a voicemail at: 646-461-6370. You might hear your message on the show and have your question answered. If you want to add theSkimm to your daily routine, sign-up for our free newsletter the Daily Skimm. It’s everything you need to know to start your day, right in your inbox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've seen unprecedented speed.
0:02.3	A highly significant moment.
0:03.8	Researchers and scientists are moving at record speed.
0:06.7	This is completely unprecedented to see the scale of response.
0:10.8	A COVID-19 vaccine.
0:13.1	It's the most sought after thing in medicine right now.
0:16.3	Maybe the most sought after thing in the world.
0:19.4	Public health officials have been telling us life isn't going to feel normal until we've
0:23.4	got a vaccine.
0:26.0	But Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, explained in March
0:30.7	that even though teams are starting clinical trials for vaccines at record speed, this
0:35.9	is still going to take a while.
0:37.6	It would take then about a year to a year and a half to be fully confident that we would
0:43.0	have a vaccine that would be able to protect the American people.
0:46.8	A year to a year and a half.
0:49.1	And that's the hopeful end of the spectrum.
0:52.0	Usually developing a vaccine takes years, think 10 to 15 years.
0:57.7	So today we're going to explain why this process takes so long.
1:01.9	Then we're going to explain how this process is getting sped up in the age of COVID-19.
1:07.5	To answer these questions, we talked to some of the research teams working day and night
1:11.6	to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
1:14.3	That's coming up on the new Schimbiss.
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