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The 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.
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Published 10/06/21
Published 10/06/21
The 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.
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Published 09/29/21
In this episode of Long Shot, we’ll speak with an American living in Sweden who had to do the unthinkable during quarantine.
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Published 09/22/21
In this episode of Long Shot, we'll learn about human challenge trials, where people contract COVID-19 on purpose.
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Published 09/15/21
In the next episode of Long Shot, we talk to some coronavirus patients who 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.
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Published 09/08/21
In this episode of Long Shot, we speak with the founders of Moderna, a company that started with essentially zero employees before becoming one of the biggest names in COVID-19 vaccines. We’ll also find out what role Jennifer Aniston played in that origin story.
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Published 09/01/21
In this next episode of Long Shot, we will hear from a scientist who figured out how to make a coronavirus vaccine two years before coronavirus struck. And in the process we’ll learn what the hell a spike protein is.
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Published 08/25/21
In this episode, we'll hear from someone with the rare distinction of having a vaccine named after them because it’s made from their cells. We’ll also speak with a vaccine inventor, who wrote a book about the world’s greatest vaccine maker, who we’ll also hear from.
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Published 08/18/21
On this episode, we speak with a human guinea pig. One of the first people on Earth to get a COVID-19 vaccine. And we introduce the predecessors to today’s vaccine makers—the first big inoculation entrepreneurs—who made a killing preventing killing, 250 years ago.
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Published 08/11/21
In the first episode of Long Shot, we'll hear a legend about ancient inoculators on a sacred mountain in China, and the remarkable story of how the genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first released to the public. We’ll also hear from an evolutionary biologist who traces the origins of coronaviruses.
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Published 08/04/21
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Published 07/23/21
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