With 1 Million Dead Worldwide, The Latest On A Coronavirus Vaccine
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🗓️ 29 September 2020
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One of those vaccine candidates is produced by Novavax. Dr. Gregory Glenn, head of research and development for Novavax, tells NPR he's not concerned about politics tainting the vaccine approval process.
While the world waits for a vaccine, NPR science reporter Michaeleen Doucleff reports on a small but growing number of scientists asking: what if we already have a vaccine that could slow the spread of the virus?
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| 0:00.0 | The actual number is almost certainly higher, but according to the trusted count of confirmed |
| 0:05.7 | deaths from researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the coronavirus has now killed more than |
| 0:10.7 | a million people around the world. |
| 0:13.2 | In reaching a million deaths is a really extraordinary milestone. |
| 0:19.4 | It's none of us that even heard of this disease a year ago and more than a million people |
| 0:23.8 | around the world have died. |
| 0:25.5 | I wouldn't be surprised if we get another million in the next three to six months. |
| 0:32.1 | A she's job, Dean of Brown University School of Public Health, is looking at countries |
| 0:36.2 | like India, where cases are rising and population density is high. |
| 0:41.2 | Here in the US, the virus is still killing thousands of people each week. |
| 0:45.6 | Of course, how many people die really is up to us based on what we decide to do in terms |
| 0:50.6 | of preventive public health measures. |
| 0:53.1 | Most of the models suggest that there are going to be a lot more people who are going |
| 0:56.0 | to get infected and die from this disease. |
| 1:00.2 | Consider this. |
| 1:01.8 | Multiple vaccine trials are in their final phase, but we're probably still closer to the |
| 1:06.5 | beginning of the pandemic than the end. |
| 1:11.4 | From NPR, I'm Audie Cornish. |
| 1:13.6 | It's Tuesday, September 29. |
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