Year In Review | When Will I Get the Vaccine? | S40-E1

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

2020 has been a year of struggle, uncertainty and loss. It has also forced us to adapt and innovate in nearly every aspect of our lives. But no innovation this year has been more important and more astounding than the Covid-19 vaccine. On this year-end episode, Steven talks to Bruce Gellin, president of Global Immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington, D.C.. about what to expect from the imminent Covid-19 vaccine.

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0:17.0	From Wundery, I'm Stephen Johnson, and this is American Innovations. Oh, Welcome to the final episode of the show for 2020. We're inching closer to the end of this
0:51.5	horrible year which I have to say cannot come soon enough.
0:56.0	Because of the pandemic, 2020 has been a year of struggle, uncertainty, and loss.
1:01.0	It has also forced us to adapt and innovate in nearly every aspect of our lives.
1:07.0	But no innovation this year has been more important and more astounding than the COVID-19 vaccine. States are currently more risk. Never before has a vaccine for a pathogen been developed and approved for public use as
1:27.1	rapidly as the COVID-19 vaccine.
1:30.0	To discuss what we can expect from the vaccine and its impending rollout, we're bringing back a guest
1:34.8	we had on way back in March in the early days of the outbreak.
1:38.8	Bruce Gellyn is the president of global immunization at the Sabine Vaccine
1:43.0	Institute in Washington, D.C.
1:45.0	Before he joined Sabine, Gellon was director of the National
1:48.6	Vaccine Program Office at the U.S. Department of Health
1:51.2	and Human Services.
1:52.2	And in 2005, he led the creation of
1:55.2	HHS's first pandemic influenza preparedness and response plan. Bruce Gellen,
2:01.1	welcome to American Innovations.
2:03.0	Stephen, it's fun to be with you again.
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