The COVID-19 Vaccines, with Irwin Redlener

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🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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What’s up with the COVID-19 vaccines? On this episode of StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice talk about all things COVID-19 vaccine with Dr. Irwin Redlener, Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	This is Star Talk. I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:19.0	And for today's episode, we're talking about the COVID-19 vaccines.
0:26.0	Jackie, with me on this one. I am indeed. However, I am not vaccinated.
0:32.0	Not vaccinated. Okay. And I'm halfway through that.
0:36.0	Did you? Yeah, I'm halfway through.
0:38.0	Congratulations. Thank you.
0:40.0	Did it up at Harlem Hospital, up in Manhattan.
0:42.0	Nice. In Harlem, of course.
0:44.0	So obviously neither you nor I have specific expertise in this field.
0:48.0	So we go into our man who does.
0:50.0	And that is Dr. Irwin Redliner, a friend from many decades.
0:55.0	Irwin, welcome back to Star Talk.
0:58.0	Now, I'd so delight in reading your title because it's one of the baddest ass titles that we've got here.
1:05.0	So you were the founding director of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness.
1:13.0	Sweet. And you created the pandemic resource and response initiative at Columbia University.
1:21.0	And this is you're the, you are the man. You. If I, if I ever see a disaster, I'm running to Irwin.
1:28.0	We're going to think of you. Help me, Dr. Redliner.
1:31.0	If you see a disaster, don't call me. I'll be really offended.
1:37.0	I don't know that.
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