Beneath the Surface: Irv Weissman on Coronavirus Vaccine Science and Politics

Sunday at 10 AM: Irv Weissman on Coronavirus Vaccine science and politics

Irv Weissman, Director of Stanford University’s Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine joins to give us a clear and comprehensive explanation of the new COVID vaccines. The FDA has just given emergency authorization for the Pfizer COVID 19 vaccine, which like Moderna 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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