S1E25 / A COVID Vaccine / Seth Berkeley & Peter Hotez

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

KFF Health News and Just Human Productions

Science, #Coronavirus, Health & Fitness, #Smallpox, Documentary, #Covid19, #Sarscov2, #Eradication, Life Sciences, Society & Culture, #Covid, Medicine

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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“Terrible diseases like smallpox, polio, yellow fever where, you know, the capital in the United States in those days, Philadelphia, in the 1700s, 10% of the population died. When you vaccinate against them, you prevent them, and they no longer are problems.” - Seth Berkley In today’s episode, co-hosts Dr. Celine Gounder and Ron Klain speak with Seth Berkley and Dr. Peter Hotez about a topic that has received a lot of attention lately-- vaccines. They discuss the processes involved in developing a vaccine for COVID-19, including when we can realistically expect a vaccine to become available to the public. They talk about the concept of herd immunity and how high vaccination rates are an essential component to this process. They also discuss the anti-vaxxer movement and how mis-messaging may be playing a part in fueling the flames of this movement in regards to a COVID-19 vaccine. Finally, they talk about the need for continued vaccine research in order to be prepared for the next inevitable pandemic. Also, co-host Ron Klain says his farewell to “Epidemic” fans as he announces that this will be his final episode as a co-host of the podcast. Seth Berkley is the CEO of the GAVI Vaccine Alliance. Dr. Peter Hotez is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	I'm Dr. Saline Gounder and I'm Ron Kline. And this is epidemic. Today is Wednesday, June 3rd.
0:15.0	It's called Operation Warp Speed.
0:20.0	That means big and it means fast a massive scientific industrial and
0:26.6	logistical endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan
0:31.9	Project its objective is to finish developing
0:35.7	and then to manufacture and distribute a proven coronavirus vaccine.
0:40.8	That's President Donald Trump on May 15th, making a huge promise.
0:45.0	We'd love to see if we could do it prior to the end of the year.
0:48.0	We think we're going to have some very good results coming out very quickly.
0:52.0	In this huge promise, there's a huge promise. some very good results coming out very quickly.
0:53.0	In this huge promise, there's a huge problem.
0:56.0	Scientists aren't magicians.
0:58.0	The challenge on this is obviously we're dealing with a new agent that we've only known about for now a little bit more than four months.
1:06.0	So we're lucky we have over a hundred vaccine approaches that are being worked on and already a handful of them in clinical trials.
1:14.3	This is Dr Seth Berkeley, CEO of the Gavi Vaccine Alliance.
1:19.4	But you can't take a 100 vaccines into late stage testing
1:24.6	and then ultimately to manufacture them quickly
1:28.2	to get the types of volumes we need.
1:30.5	Vaccine development typically takes years and even with the unprecedented resources
1:35.5	going into creating a COVID vaccine things can only move so fast.
1:39.8	We're not going to have a vaccine the earliest till probably the third quarter of 2021 and even that would be a record time.
1:48.0	That's Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine,
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