11 episodes
Long Shot iHeartPodcasts
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4.6 • 24 Ratings
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Driven by a pandemic unprecedented in our lifetimes —a virus that has killed our neighbors, our friends, our families—we are witnesses to the massive international effort to create COVID-19 vaccines and get shots in arms. The vaccines were developed in record time, but they evolved from centuries of experimentation and science. “LONG SHOT: THE 250-YEAR JOURNEY TO THE COVID-19 VACCINES” travels back in time to the long-forgotten first inoculators and connects them to the research, methods, and people behind today's vaccines.
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The Super Episode
The final episode of Long Shot travels millions of years into the past to when coronaviruses first appeared, and brings us back to the future of COVID vaccines. With a hell of a lot of vaccine milestones in between.
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Frankenvirus
The future of coronavirus vaccines may be an engineered spike protein called HexaPro. And it's carried into the human body by a bird disease. We'll learn how it works, and ask why one of this vaccine's creators brought the 1918 flu back from the dead.
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Puke Worms
Marina wanted companionship during the loneliness of quarantine, so she got a COVID pet. But nothing went as planned.
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A Human Challenge
Meet Jacob Hopkins, one of the first people to contract COVID-19 on purpose. He's part of the first human challenge trial for coronavirus.
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Long COVID
Some coronavirus patients have never recovered. They suffer vivid dreams, insomnia, and a host of other weird symptoms that are nothing like the respiratory illness we think of as COVID-19. They have long COVID, and they’ve had it since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Immature Cells
Moderna started with essentially zero employees before becoming one of the biggest names in COVID-19 vaccines. We'll speak with the company's founders. And we'll find out what role Jennifer Aniston played in that origin story.
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Customer Reviews
Really interesting
Science broken down into understandable, digestible bits. Really well done!
Fascinating deep dive into immunology!
I’m loving the deep dive into the history of vaccination. I like the way the podcast goes way way way back. It is meticulously researched. My only complaint is episode 8, which was weird and unrelated to vaccines.
Fascinating
Wow, what a fascinating trip down the history of vaccination. And quite the development of mRNA and the Covid jab. Loved it
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