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The quest for the coronavirus vaccine with Seth Berkley

The TED Interview

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Can the World Afford 18 Months on a Vaccine?

The world will do everything they can to squeeze it down, but i think that's the time line we're talking about. The whole idea of having isolation now is to try to get stop the change of transmission a protect health workers in hospitals. If you can suppress it enough, and later on ad have testing available, you might be able to go back to somewhat of a normal life and then watch for a re introduction of this virus. But experiments going on. And china has done an amazing job of controlling this with slightly less severe interventions. We've seen in corea similar things. Now w'll be able to remove to some form of normalcy. And we also may have drugs

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