October is Nobel Prize season in Scandinavia. And just hours ago, the winners were announced

on the medicine category. Yeah, new this morning scientists, Caitlin Carrico from Hungary and

Drew Wiseman from the U.S. are the 2023 Nobel Prize winners in medicine for discoveries

in enabling the development of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

In 2020, when the world shut down from the COVID-19 pandemic, hope and optimism were

scarce commodities. But less than a year later, the life's work of one scientist was able to

bring us back together. Earlier this week, that scientist, Dr. Caitlin Carrico, was awarded the Nobel

Prize in Medicine for her groundbreaking discovery that led to the COVID-19 vaccine.

So today, we revisit a conversation between Pablo Tori and Julie Faudi that we first ran in June

2021. It tells a classic American tale of Dr. Carrico, her Olympian daughter,

and a shared will to never give up hope. I'm just intense. It's Friday, October 6th. This is the

SPN Daily. Julie, it is a wild time to be talking to you right now. You're in the middle of

covering Euro 2020 and event that had been delayed due to COVID. The Olympics are also right on the

horizon, also thrown into flux by the coronavirus pandemic. But you have this documentary feature

that you've been preparing for E60 that feels like it sits at the center of this entire messy

Venn diagram. It is about sports. It is about science. It is about the pandemic and the Olympics

and one particular family. This first of all, Pablo, is a gift of a story. It's a reporter's dream.

Julie Faudi is an Olympic and World Cup champion with the U.S. women's national team. And now,

she's a soccer commentator and reporter for ESPN. You have a mom who is a scientist who has

toiled for decades on something that she believes deeply in and this technology that led to the

Pfizer and Moderna vaccine. That's the scientific community took so long to understand

to have a daughter who's an athlete who doesn't realize her full potential until later in life.

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