Vaccines, Masks and Handwashing: A Coronavirus Update
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this installment, we follow up on our March episode about the novel coronavirus now that we know more about COVID-19 and how it spreads. Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, assistant clinical professor of infectious diseases at the Medical University of South Carolina, returns to answer questions about the things we can do to keep ourselves and those around us safe. And we'll learn about what vaccines are, how they're developed and the accelerated process for developing a coronavirus vaccine.
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| 0:00.0 | This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Jane Lenton. |
| 0:27.7 | On this show, we take questions from curious kids just like you and we find answers. |
| 0:33.5 | Sometimes we talk about things that are happening in the world around us right now, and this |
| 0:38.5 | is one of those episodes. |
| 0:40.7 | You have probably been hearing about a virus, a sickness that's been going around the world. |
| 0:46.2 | We did an episode about it back in March, five months ago now, when we were all still just |
| 0:51.4 | starting to learn about it. |
| 0:53.6 | And now, although we're still learning new things about this virus, we've also had some |
| 0:58.0 | time to experience the way our lives have changed because of it. |
| 1:02.8 | Some people have gotten very sick, but even people who haven't been made ill have been |
| 1:08.0 | affected by this worldwide situation. |
| 1:11.4 | Many of you probably had to stop going to school in the spring, or it would have been the |
| 1:15.6 | fall if you live in the southern hemisphere. |
| 1:18.5 | And some of you aren't going back to your school buildings at all as school starts up |
| 1:22.5 | again in many countries. |
| 1:25.0 | Others of you will be going back, but maybe not full time, or you might have to wear a |
| 1:29.3 | mask when you're in your school, or maybe your family is trying to find a different kind |
| 1:33.8 | of arrangement to make sure you can learn new things and stay healthy at the same time. |
| 1:39.8 | Today we're going to get an update on this virus called COVID-19. |
| 1:44.4 | And we're going to answer some of your questions about what's called a vaccine, a medicine |
| 1:48.7 | that can help people not get a sickness. |
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