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How COVID vaccines are revolutionizing medicine | Adrian Hill

The TED Interview

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Vaccines

This year we cut the stoart of vaccine roll out time for four years to one year. What is an imaginable time line? You can make vaccines against more generic passagen. Could you make a suite of those vaccines against alpha coronovariss, beter coronovariss and other families of arises? That might take the edge off infection. They wouldn't be 90 % effective, like a perfectly matched faccine, but if they were, say, 50% protective against death, instead of 100%. So that's one option. The second thing, of course, is to have rapid manufacturing facilities humming, waiting for this event. We have one being built about 20 miles from

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