Who Gets The Vaccine First? And How Will They Get It?

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Developing a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine will be crucial to getting the pandemic under control. Also important, distributing it throughout the country once it's been approved. NPR science reporter Pien Huang tells us which high risk groups will get it first, how the vaccine will be distributed (including some challenges), and who's footing the bill for all of this.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:05.6	Maddie Sifai here with NPR Science reporter Peng Huang Hai Ping.
0:09.2	Hi Maddie.
0:10.4	So this last week or so was pretty busy in terms of coronavirus coverage.
0:15.4	Yeah, it was super busy.
0:17.5	Biden was announced as the next president elect.
0:20.6	Winning the White House and denying President Trump.
0:23.2	A couple of years later, he announced his COVID-19 transition advisory board.
0:27.4	He'll follow the science.
0:29.1	He'll follow the science.
0:30.1	Let me say that again.
0:31.6	Meanwhile, a backdrop of all of this case numbers are exploding all over the country.
0:37.0	It's not a Midwest story or an East Coast story or a Southern state story.
0:41.0	It's all over.
0:42.0	The results of some news about preliminary results from the Pfizer vaccine trials.
0:45.2	They looked pretty promising.
0:47.3	Pfizer says early results show its experimental vaccine is 90% effective at preventing it.
0:52.5	We know that an effective vaccine is critical to controlling the pandemic.
0:56.4	But it's not just about finding a vaccine that works.
0:59.0	Getting that vaccine out to the public is just as important.
1:02.3	For sure, even the most effective safest coronavirus vaccine won't work to curb the spread of
1:08.2	the virus unless a large number of people get immunized.
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