Vaxx and the Facts: Operation Warp Speed
Going Viral - The Podcast
English - January 29, 2021 07:17 - 31 minutes - 24.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsScience History covid19 covid flu history influenza medicine pandemic science virus Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On New Year’s Eve 2020, Mark took his mum to St Charles’s Hospital in London’s North Kensington to get a shot of the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, almost a year after the coronavirus had emerged in Wuhan. It’s the science story of the century - how successful vaccines against Covid-19 have been created in under a year. Mark explores how they did it so quickly with Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute in Oxford behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. And against the backdrop of global vaccine hesitancy, and as Covid-19 cases surge in Britain’s second wave, Mark speaks to Peter Openshaw from Imperial College London about the magic of vaccines.
Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum
With
Professor Adrian Hill, Lakshmi Mittal and Family Professorship of Vaccinology; Director of the Jenner Institute; Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Vaccines; Fellow of Magdalen College.
www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-adrian-hill
Peter Openshaw Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College at Imperial College, London.
www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.openshaw / @p_openshaw
Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg
Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com
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