S8E3: The Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine

The novel coronavirus has spread faster than any epidemic in recent memory. It’s called the “stealth virus” for a reason: patients are infectious even before they have symptoms. That means fully eradicating COVID19 could hinge on the development of a vaccine - which may be more than a year away. Today, we are going to talk about why a vaccine could be a long term solution, what types of vaccines are under development, and the progress The University of Hong Kong is making to create a novel coronavirus vaccine. 

Guests:

Professor Malik Peiris, Chair of Virology at HKU School of Public Health

Professor Leo Poon, Head of Public Health Laboratory Sciences at HKU School of Public Health

Further Listening and Reading:

Fight COVID19 with HKU website

Joint JMSC and School of Public Health Workshop for Journalists on COVID19 

If you have some questions you’d like us to answer, record a voice memo and send it to us by email to [email protected]. Your questions might be answered on one of our upcoming episodes.   

Production credits:

Producer and Host: Marcy Trent Long

Assistant producer: YuFei Wu

Contributing Editor: Bonnie Au

Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin

Music from free music archive- Effemeah Weeps