The quest for the coronavirus vaccine with Seth Berkley

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🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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When will the coronavirus vaccine be ready? Epidemiologist Seth Berkley (head of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance) takes us inside the effort to create a vaccine for COVID-19. With clarity and urgency, he explains what makes it so challenging to develop, when we can expect it to be rolled out at scale and why we'll need global collaboration to get it done. This virtual conversation is part of the TED Connects series, hosted by Chris Anderson and current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers. It was recorded on March 26, 2020. To learn more, visit go.ted.com/tedconnects

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:12.0	Hello everyone, it's Chris Anderson here.
0:14.0	This is part of a special season of the Ted interview podcast.
0:18.0	Ted's attempt to respond to this global pandemic.
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0:24.0	and feature experts whose ideas can help us reflect
0:27.0	and work through this uncertain time and prepare for what's to come.
0:31.0	My co-host for this episode is Ted's current affairs curator, Whitney Pennington Rogers.
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0:54.0	So today Seth Berkley, he's an epidemiologist and the head of Garvey, the vaccine alliance,
1:00.0	speaking on the global quest for the coronavirus vaccine.
1:05.0	What you're here is as recorded.
1:08.0	This is meant to be timely.
1:09.0	We haven't gone through a special fact checking process.
1:12.0	It's as it was heard live.
1:13.0	Okay, let's dive in.
1:15.0	Good to see you there Chris and delighted to be with you and all of the Ted community.
1:21.0	Well, on Tuesday Bill Gates was here and he mentioned that your organization Garvey is really at the heart of the quest for a vaccine.
1:33.0	So tell us a bit, what is Garvey?
1:36.0	So Chris, thank you for that.
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