Human vaccine trials begin! What happens next?


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Apr 22 2020 11 mins   2k
Human trials for a coronavirus vaccine have begun in the UK, and it's all actions go. Depending on what happens there’s a long way to go before you might be innoculated. Usually the process could take years, but this isn’t your usual vaccine trial. On today's show: * What are the phases of vaccine trials? * Wasn’t the vaccine 18 months away? * Are death rates worse in hotter or cooler climates? * Will we see a better flu season because everyone is indoors? And Norman has found a paper from Nature Medicine, published in 2015, that has some spooky predictions about the current pandemic.