The Virus: The race for a vaccine
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The story of a former resident of Wuhan - the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak - who is now part of a UK team racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine.
Guests:
- Dr Kai Hu, Research Associate, Department of Infectious Disease at Imperial College London.
- Tom Whipple, Science Editor, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm just coming through the revolving doors at the Times and the Sunday Times offices |
| 0:10.6 | just by London Bridge Station and things here have really changed. |
| 0:17.0 | There are suddenly hand sanitizers everywhere. |
| 0:21.0 | The big billboards where you normally see front pages proudly displayed now show long |
| 0:28.3 | lists of symptoms. This is apparently the new normal. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Nanvein Rana and this is stories of our times, |
| 0:42.0 | a new daily podcast from The Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:46.0 | Each day we'll be looking at one important story in depth. And sometimes that'll be over more than one episode. |
| 0:53.0 | After all, these are extraordinary times. |
| 0:56.0 | The virus doesn't care about you. |
| 0:58.0 | The virus doesn't have any animus towards you. |
| 1:01.0 | The virus wants to reproduce. You probably won't be surprised to hear |
| 1:04.8 | what we're focusing on this week. The whole city's locked down, you have no idea |
| 1:10.4 | how long this will last. After a while it's like you have no idea what you should |
| 1:15.3 | do at home. Today the virus part one the race for a vaccine we hear from the time science |
| 1:22.1 | editor and a vaccine researcher who's just had a breakthrough. That's coming up after this. Dr. Kihu of Imperial College in London isn't used to doing lots of interviews. |
| 1:39.3 | It is like very new for me and it's not odd but like it's new. |
| 1:46.0 | It's been three months since the outbreak began in Wuhan. |
| 1:50.0 | Since then, Kai and his fellow vaccine researchers at Imperial have suddenly been thrust into the spotlight. |
| 1:56.0 | And so has his former hometown in China. |
| 1:59.0 | I just happen to be the person who lived in U-Huh Ohio and working in the vaccine now. |
| 2:05.0 | Nothing special. |
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