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#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Coronavirus
In 2003, there's this outbreak of severe respiratory disease in China. This is a corona virus, our family of viruses that included the one you mentioned before,. So SARS-CoV-1, yeah. CoV-1 and I guess other ones. We first learned of them in animals, a lot of animals pigs and cows and horses have corona viruses. In fact, the one antiviral that's in phase three, it's called Molupiravir. That was developed five years ago, but never taken into humans. It could have been ready. People were really short-sighted because I always said we could have had antivirals for this. For sure
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