What We Can't Know About a Vaccine
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The race for a COVID-19 vaccine entered a new phase recently. Four different vaccine candidates, developed by Moderna, Pfizer, BionTech and Johnson & Johnson, entered final-stage trials, with two others close behind. But we won’t know exactly how these four vaccines work for months. Robert Langreth explains what we can, and, more importantly, can’t know about a vaccine developed at breakneck speed.
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| 0:33.6 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 201 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:43.7 | Today's main story, headlines about new vaccine candidates drop nearly every day. |
| 0:50.5 | But because the development process is moving at super speed, there's a lot we just can't know about the new crop of potential inoculations. |
| 1:01.4 | But first, here's what happened in virus news today. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is warning that the country may see a coronavirus surge by Christmas. |
| 1:22.5 | Merkel said today that Germany will face more than 19,000 new COVID-19 cases a day by the end of December |
| 1:31.3 | if the current trend in infections isn't halted. |
| 1:35.2 | The country recorded about 11,000 cases last week. |
| 1:39.8 | Merkel told leaders of her party that the country must act quickly to avoid the same rapid rise |
| 1:45.8 | in cases as neighboring countries, such as France, which has been reporting an average of |
| 1:51.6 | about 12,000 cases each day. Moscow has started to reopen temporary hospital wards after daily |
| 2:00.0 | coronavirus infections in the Russian capital soared. |
| 2:03.9 | The capital is the epicenter of the virus in Russia. |
| 2:07.9 | City Hall ordered eight Moscow hospitals to re-equip themselves to handle patients by early next week, |
| 2:14.7 | according to the Interfax News Service. |
| 2:18.0 | Moscow began demobilizing its temporary wards in late May. |
| 2:23.3 | Finally, Hong Kong's latest coronavirus wave is showing signs of subsiding after months of social distancing measures. |
| 2:32.3 | The country posted single-digit increases in cases for |
| 2:36.2 | seven of the last eight days. That has pushed the rolling seven-day average daily |
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