The Vaccine: The first glimmer of hope
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The first in an unfolding miniseries - The Vaccine - tracking the progress of those tackling this historic challenge. We'll be making sense of the latest developments as they happen, taking an inside look at the vaccine industry, and learning from past efforts to defend humanity from our biological enemies.
This week: in the war between scientists and the virus it looks like things are going the humans’ way. But this is no quick fix.
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Guests:
Tom Whipple, science editor, The Times.
Professor David Salisbury, former director of immunisation at the Department of Health.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Calla Mcdonald here, one of the Present of Times Radio Breakfast. |
| 0:03.2 | Just to let you know about the Future of Food and Drink Summit in November, the Times and the Sunday Times |
| 0:08.3 | Times Scotland are hosting a field to fork overview of the food and drink industry featuring global brands |
| 0:15.3 | and exciting startups all looking for fresh avenues for future growth and you can |
| 0:21.0 | be there too come and join me and those experts in Aberdeen. |
| 0:25.3 | Register at Times-event.com forward slash food and drink. So this is big the greatest medical advance in the last hundred. Out of Germany came great tidings of a new vaccine. |
| 0:46.0 | Do we now say with confidence that life should be returning to normal by spring? |
| 0:51.0 | Yes, yes, yes. In the war between the scientists and the virus it looks |
| 0:57.9 | like things are going the humans way, but this is no quick fix. |
| 1:03.0 | Eradicating a global disease is a mighty business, |
| 1:06.0 | as past experience tells us. |
| 1:09.0 | I had to usher in a new medical age |
| 1:10.0 | with the salt vaccine against crippling polio, sensational success. |
| 1:14.8 | Growing fears that polio will surge as the world focuses on eradicating the coronavirus. |
| 1:22.0 | This is stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday times. I'm David |
| 1:25.8 | Aronovich and this episode is the first in an unfolding miniseries, The Vaccine, tracking the |
| 1:31.4 | progress of those tackling one of the truly great historic challenges |
| 1:35.8 | to human ingenuity and organization. |
| 1:39.1 | Over the coming weeks and months, we'll be making sense of the latest developments as they happen. |
| 1:43.6 | This is what we've been waiting for. The limiting factor will not be the number of vaccines, |
| 1:48.7 | it will be the logistics and the logistics are phenomenal. |
| 1:53.0 | Taking an inside look at the vaccine industry. |
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