Why a vaccine won’t be a silver bullet

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🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Joel Achenbach tracks the rising coronavirus caseloads in some parts of the country. William Wan explains how the virus could become the next measles or chickenpox. And Ben Guarino talks us through a time-tested method for disease containment.

As the economy reopens, coronavirus transmission remains high in much of the U.S.

Coronavirus may never go away — even with a vaccine.

Reopening the country safely means deploying “disease detectives” — contact tracers — as soon as possible.

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0:25.2	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:30.4	Hi, this is Ben Taris coming from the Washington Post.
0:33.5	Hi, Jeff. This is Winchery Oprah.
0:35.6	Hi there. How are you?
0:37.2	It's Lisa Berners, coming from the Post.
0:39.1	This is Post Reports. I'm routine powers.
0:44.4	It's Wednesday, June 10th.
0:49.4	Today, what's happening in states that reopened early?
0:53.2	The future of the pandemic and a crucial step for public health.
1:01.7	So here we are, and this pandemic feels like it's been going on forever.
1:11.6	It's very discouraging to realize that according to all the experts, the epidemiologists,
1:18.2	we are still early in this pandemic.
1:21.3	The reason they say that is because most people have never been infected with the virus,
1:28.6	the vast majority of people in America.
1:31.6	And so we are susceptible.
1:34.4	We're so far away from herd immunity.
1:37.1	We don't have a vaccine.
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