The Future of Vaccines with Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Andy calls up Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel for a remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the last two years inside the company. As Moderna's booster shots start to roll out across the country, Andy and Stéphane discuss the origins of Moderna's partnership with the government, how he thinks the vaccine will hold up against future variants, and the effort to vaccinate the globe. Plus, Stéphane's riveting recollections of hearing about COVID-19 for the first time in January 2020, and what else they’re working on right now to help us end the pandemic.

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Check out Stéphane’s letter titled “Our Global Commitment to Vaccine Access”: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/our-global-commitment-vaccine-access
Read more about how the FDA and CDC approved Moderna’s booster shot last week and also endorsed the mix-and-match approach: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/health/covid-vaccine-boosters-cdc.html
Here’s the Bloomberg story Stéphane mentioned about Haiti shipping unused doses back to COVAX: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-13/haiti-to-send-back-expiring-u-s-donated-moderna-vaccines
Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
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0:00.0	Mental health challenges are affecting people in the US at high levels, particularly among
0:05.0	adolescents.
0:06.0	At CVS Health, mental health is just as important as physical health.
0:11.0	That's whether making mental, well-being services more accessible, less complicated, more
0:15.4	convenient, and more inviting.
0:18.0	CVS Health is doing this by creating new programs, encouraging care to discussions, and providing
0:23.2	increased access to digital tools and telehealth services.
0:27.0	CVS Health is there to help.
0:31.0	Learn more at CVS Health.com.
0:34.0	Let me know.
0:39.0	Welcome in the bubble.
0:57.8	This is your host Andy Slavin.
0:59.7	Stefan Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, is on today.
1:04.8	If you have taken Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson, you are still allowed to listen.
1:08.8	It's an incredible conversation.
1:12.8	Before we get to many of the questions that I think are really on people's minds around
1:17.6	how the vaccine is working, how often we'll need to get a booster, and how it's doing
1:22.1	around the globe, it begins with a story.
1:25.0	In January of 2020, there was a flurry of activity.
1:28.6	In Wuhan, in Maryland, at NIH headquarters in Injave, Switzerland, calculations were being
1:34.9	made on napkins, experts and scientists who had spent entire careers on pandemics were
1:40.8	slipping into semi-familiar, yet semi-dream-like realities.
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