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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

It’s late 2020 and the first vaccines are going into arms across the world.

With supplies tight, the nations of the world are pushing and shoving to get their shots, and investors are salivating at the thought of the profits to be made now that humanity’s got Covid’s on the run.

But this virus isn’t going down without a fight. And in South Africa, one geneticist is about to make an alarming discovery.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars, add free on Amazon music.
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0:07.0	It's November 2020 and in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa, COVID is back with
0:25.2	a
0:49.3	Sitting in amongst a crowd of people in the respiratory area,
0:53.1	there was a 13-year-old boy lying in the bed next to her,
0:56.8	and another lady lying in another bed right next to her,
1:00.3	also watching it as it happened.
1:04.1	A few weeks ago, the virus was in retreat.
1:07.6	Now, it's spreading like wildfire,
1:10.8	and health officials need to know why.
1:13.7	Fast.
1:14.2	December 1, 2020.
1:18.6	University of Quazulu, Natal, Durban, South Africa.
1:22.2	In a cramped laboratory, Professor Tullio D'Aelvera
1:26.6	scans the results on his computer.
1:28.3	D'Aelvera is part of South Africa's Genome Surveillance Network,
1:32.9	an army of geneticists on the lookout for mutations in the COVID virus.
1:38.1	It's important, but uneventful work.
1:41.1	For 11 months, D'Aelvera's team has analyzed 1,500 COVID viruses,
1:47.3	and found no concerning mutations.
1:50.3	But the genome sequences on his computer screen today
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