Long Shot
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 175 ratingsDriven by a pandemic unprecedented in our lifetimes —a virus that has killed our neighbors, our friends, our families—we are witnesses to the massive international effort to create COVID-19 vaccines and get shots in arms. The vaccines were developed in record time, but they evolved from centuries of experimentation and science. “LONG SHOT: THE 250-YEAR JOURNEY TO THE COVID-19 VACCINES” travels back in time to the long-forgotten first inoculators and connects them to the research, methods, and people behind today's vaccines.
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Episodes
The Super Episode
October 06, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBThe final episode of Long Shot travels millions of years into the past to when coronaviruses first appeared, and brings us back to the future of COVID vaccines. With a hell of a lot of vaccine milestones in between. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 10 - The Super Episode
October 06, 2021 09:00 - 46 minutesThe final episode of Long Shot travels millions of years into the past to when coronaviruses first appeared, and brings us back to the future of COVID vaccines. With a hell of a lot of vaccine milestones in between. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Frankenvirus
September 29, 2021 08:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBThe future of coronavirus vaccines may be an engineered spike protein called HexaPro. And it's carried into the human body by a bird disease. We'll learn how it works, and ask why one of this vaccine's creators brought the 1918 flu back from the dead. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 9 - Frankenvirus
September 29, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutesThe future of coronavirus vaccines may be an engineered spike protein called HexaPro. And it's carried into the human body by a bird disease. We'll learn how it works, and ask why one of this vaccine's creators brought the 1918 flu back from the dead. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Episode 8 - Puke Worms
September 22, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutesMarina wanted companionship during the loneliness of quarantine, so she got a COVID pet. But nothing went as planned. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Puke Worms
September 22, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBMarina wanted companionship during the loneliness of quarantine, so she got a COVID pet. But nothing went as planned. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 7 - A Human Challenge
September 15, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutesMeet Jacob Hopkins, one of the first people to contract COVID-19 on purpose. He's part of the first human challenge trial for coronavirus. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
A Human Challenge
September 15, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBMeet Jacob Hopkins, one of the first people to contract COVID-19 on purpose. He's part of the first human challenge trial for coronavirus. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Long COVID
September 08, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBSome coronavirus patients have never recovered. They suffer vivid dreams, insomnia, and a host of other weird symptoms that are nothing like the respiratory illness we think of as COVID-19. They have long COVID, and they’ve had it since the beginning of the pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 6 - Long COVID
September 08, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutesSome coronavirus patients have never recovered. They suffer vivid dreams, insomnia, and a host of other weird symptoms that are nothing like the respiratory illness we think of as COVID-19. They have long COVID, and they’ve had it since the beginning of the pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Episode 5 - Immature Cells
September 01, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutesModerna started with essentially zero employees before becoming one of the biggest names in COVID-19 vaccines. We'll speak with the company's founders. And we'll find out what role Jennifer Aniston played in that origin story. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Immature Cells
September 01, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBModerna started with essentially zero employees before becoming one of the biggest names in COVID-19 vaccines. We'll speak with the company's founders. And we'll find out what role Jennifer Aniston played in that origin story. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 4 - Spike
August 25, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutesHow did scientists figure out how to make a coronavirus vaccine two years before coronavirus struck? And what the hell is a spike protein? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Spike
August 25, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBHow did scientists figure out how to make a coronavirus vaccine two years before coronavirus struck? And what the hell is a spike protein? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Blended Mouse Brains
August 18, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBJeryl Lynn Hilleman has the rare distinction of having a vaccine named after her, because it’s made from her cells. And her father, Maurice Hilleman, was the world’s greatest vaccine maker. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 3 - Blended Mouse Brains
August 18, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutesJeryl Lynn Hilleman has the rare distinction of having a vaccine named after her, because it’s made from her cells. And her father, Maurice Hilleman, was the world’s greatest vaccine maker. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Episode 2 - Not Unto Death
August 11, 2021 09:00 - 42 minutesNicola Pasquarelli is a human guinea pig, one of the first people on earth to get a COVID-19 vaccine. We'll also meet the Sutton family, the first big inoculation entrepreneurs—who made a killing preventing killing, 250 years ago. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Not Unto Death
August 11, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBNicola Pasquarelli is a human guinea pig, one of the first people on earth to get a COVID-19 vaccine. We'll also meet the Sutton family, the first big inoculation entrepreneurs—who made a killing preventing killing, 250 years ago. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Beginnings
August 04, 2021 13:45 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBA legend about ancient inoculators on a sacred mountain, and the remarkable story of how the genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first released to the public. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 1 - Beginnings
August 04, 2021 13:45 - 51 minutesA legend about ancient inoculators on a sacred mountain, and the remarkable story of how the genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first released to the public. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Introducing: Long Shot
July 23, 2021 14:18 - 2 minutes - 2.3 MBLearn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.