Jacobin Radio: The Science and Politics of COVID Vaccines

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🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Suzi talks to her brother, Irv Weissman, Director of Stanford University’s Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, who gives us a clear and comprehensive explanation of the new COVID vaccines. The FDA has now given emergency authorization for the Pfizer COVID 19 vaccine, which like Moderna’s is an mRNA vaccine. This authorization comes in the wake of a punishing wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths as COVID rampages across the globe, with the highest rates of infection and death in the US. California is once again on lockdown. Consider this a primer on vaccines in general but COVID in particular – and we get answers to questions about how the new COVID vaccines work, what makes them revolutionary – and what obstacles -- structural, political and scientific – need to be understood – and possibly pushed out of the way?

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0:00.0	The This is Jack I'm
0:19.3	This is Jack Ein Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.
0:25.8	The FDA is just given emergency authorization for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, which like the Moderna one is an MRNA vaccine.
0:29.4	This authorization comes in the wake of a punishing wave of infections, hospitalizations, and death as COVID is on the
0:37.1	rampage across the globe, but the highest rates of infection and deaths are in the United States.
0:43.7	California is once again on lockdown.
0:46.5	Today we're going to talk to Herb Wiseman,
0:48.5	director of Stanford University's Institute of stem cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine,
0:54.8	Disclosure, he's my brother,
0:56.7	about the science and politics of vaccines.
0:59.8	Consider this a primer on vaccines in general
1:02.4	and COVID in particular, and we get answers to questions
1:06.1	about how the new COVID vaccines work, what makes them revolutionary, and what obstacles,
1:12.0	structural, political, and scientific need to be understood and
1:16.2	possibly pushed out of the way.
1:18.2	All this when our program returns in just a moment. This is a job in radio. I'm Susie Wiseman. I'm Susie Wiseman. Very pleased to have my brother, Erv Wiseman, back with us. We're going to talk about the politics and science of vaccines.
1:44.0	Irv is the director of Stanford University's Institute of stem cell biology and
1:49.9	regenerative medicine and he was previously the head of the
1:53.7	immunology program and the cancer center. He's widely recognized as a stem
1:58.3	cell pioneer and the first scientist to purify blood-forming stem cells in both mice and humans.
2:05.0	He's not a virologist, he's not a vaccinologist, but this is a topic that he knows pretty well
2:10.0	and he has an incredible ability to explain it to us which is the reason why I wanted him on with us today to get behind this story.
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