Vaccinating the world
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Now that scientists have created a Covid-19 vaccine in record time, the race is on to vaccinate the world. Public health professor Devi Sridhar follows the journey of the Covid vaccine from factory to arm as she goes behind the scenes of the rollout. Speaking to health leaders, politicians and experts, we see how the world is responding and look at how long it might take to vaccinate enough people.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you remember where you were? |
| 0:02.0 | Breaking news, Pfizer reporting moments ago that its vaccine, they say is 90% effective. |
| 0:12.0 | We're getting much more information now. |
| 0:14.4 | Their CEO says today is a great day for science and humanity. |
| 0:21.2 | I hadn't expected it to be so quick, less than 12 months after we first heard of COVID-19. |
| 0:28.0 | China's reported 139 new cases of pneumonia in two days. |
| 0:33.2 | And this is a concern because it's from the same family of viruses as SARS. |
| 0:38.3 | Scientists had developed a vaccine to protect the world and stop the spread. |
| 0:44.0 | But not just one vaccine, a whole raft of vaccines came online at the start of 2021. |
| 0:50.0 | Now the challenge begins. |
| 0:53.0 | Those of us who work in infectious diseases, eradication, and global public health. |
| 0:59.0 | We always talk about preparing for this. |
| 1:02.0 | This is the greatest challenge public health |
| 1:05.4 | officials have faced in any of our lifetimes. It presents difficult choices. How do we |
| 1:12.3 | roll out vaccines quickly? How do we roll them out fairly? |
| 1:19.9 | My name is Davey Schreider. From the BBC World Service, this is vaccinating the world. |
| 1:27.0 | Manos Brazil. This country has been described as the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 1:40.0 | The certificate The statistics are stark. The country has recorded more than 15 million cases and nearly half a million deaths. |
| 1:53.0 | The president, Gerbel Sanaro, |
| 1:55.0 | has for most of the past year, |
| 1:58.0 | refused to wear a mask, |
| 1:59.0 | criticized vaccinations, |
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