People On The Move
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I have you loud and clear. |
| 0:03.3 | Hello. |
| 0:04.3 | Hello. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome. |
| 0:06.3 | Science and that is the same physics medicine, nature or space big time, brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:16.3 | Hello and welcome to the naked scientist, the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs |
| 0:20.6 | in science, technology and medicine with me Phil Sansom and with me Chris Smith |
| 0:25.0 | coming up the science behind Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine announcement and |
| 0:28.7 | crucially what they're not telling us yet the mink farms that are spreading a new variant of COVID-19 and why |
| 0:35.2 | UK scientists are trying to extract oxygen from the moon. |
| 0:39.5 | Plus we're halfway through our on-the-move month and this week it's people on the move from ancient humans to modern travelers to the future of migration in a changing world. The Naked Scientist Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. |
| 0:55.0 | Now this week for the first time in quite a while we actually got some good news |
| 1:05.0 | about the coronavirus pandemic. Trials carried out by the US |
| 1:08.5 | Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer and the German manufacturer Bioentec suggest they have created a coronavirus vaccine which is more than 90% effective. |
| 1:19.0 | They've described it in their announcement as a great day for science and humanity. |
| 1:23.4 | Their vaccine is currently in the final stage, phase three, of the approval process. |
| 1:27.6 | It's being tested on 43,500 people in six countries, and so far it seems to be safe. Jonathan Van Tam one of |
| 1:34.8 | England's deputy chief medical officers cautioned that one swallow does not make |
| 1:38.9 | a summer but otherwise made optimistic overtures. |
| 1:41.6 | If I could rightly and morally be at the very front of the |
| 1:46.5 | queue then I would do so. Nevertheless despite the hype and the hope there is still an |
| 1:51.9 | enormous amount that we don't know about this vaccine, |
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