How to Vaccinate the World
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How to Vaccinate the World
Scientists are racing to create a vaccine to end the Covid-19 pandemic.But creating a workable vaccine is just the start. Tim Harford is your guide to this epic global undertaking.
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22 EpisodenListeners' Questions
For the final instalment of this series we are turning over the programme to you, our listeners. Over the past four months we’ve asked you to send us...
What We Have Learned
Way back in the distant past that was last November, we rushed to produce the first episode of How To Vaccinate The World. Those were heady days. Pfiz...
What The Numbers Tell Us
Tim Harford is an economist not an immunologist, so he's on solid ground with this week’s programme which is all about numbers. Some of them are small...
The Global Roll Out
More than 300 million doses of Covid 19 vaccines have been administered - that’s nearly three times the number of official Covid cases. But, the novel...
BAME Vaccine Take-Up
In the UK alone, more than 20 million people have had a first dose of a Covid 19 vaccine, and the government hopes to speed up the roll out by offerin...
Vaccine Passports
Monopoly is a good parallel for life in a pandemic because it deals out suffering at random, and it seems to go on forever. So people can be forgiven...
Vaccines and Variants
Vaccines and Variants is a great title for a fun new geeky game but a very bad combination for public health. New variants of the virus which causes...
Incentives
More than a 100 million people around the world have received a jab for Covid 19. But, we’re greedy - we want more. The virus is mutating, so vaccina...
Dr Anthony Fauci
This week's panel of guests include President Biden’s Chief Medical Adviser, the long-serving director of the Infectious Disease Institute at the US N...
Vaccine Nationalism
No one’s safe until everyone is safe - it’s a phrase we are getting used to hearing. We are all going to look after each other and make sure everyone...
Vaccination Strategies
The development of new vaccines for Covid 19 is a stunning scientific achievement. But now we some a cunning plans to get them out of their vials and...
Roll On The Roll Out
The vaccines are finally here, and countries around the world are running a race against time to get them into our arms as fast as possible. At the m...
The Second Dose
So, like buses, vaccine approvals, in the UK at least, seem to come in threes. First Pfizer/BioNtech, then Oxford/AstraZeneca and now Moderna have bee...
Larry Brilliant
Epidemiologists don’t often hang out with rock stars, and not many of them can say they’ve played a part in eradicating a disease as deadly as smallp...
Bill Gates
As the co-founder of Microsoft, and one of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates has long been a poster child for geek power. But, through his Gates Fou...
The Vaccine Year Ahead
What might the wonderful world of vaccines have in store for us in 2021? And what are the challenges that lie ahead in getting them to the billions o...
Vaccine Hesitancy
For a vaccine to work, people need to take it. But some are hesitant.
On this week's How to Vaccinate the World, Tim Harford looks at why som...
The First Shots
So, after much waiting and hoping, a Covid 19 vaccine has been approved for use in the UK. Now the roll out begins. But, it’s not easy moving around...
The Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine
Tim Harford reports on what we know and don't know about the Oxford/Astra Zeneca Covid 19 vaccine, as well as answering questions from both the audien...
Who gets it?
It looks like we may finally be getting a coronavirus vaccine. But who’s “we”? Who is at the front of the queue, and who should be at the front of the...
The Beginning
A dramatic breakthrough in the race for a Covid vaccine has been announced. Now what? An unprecedented logistical effort unfolds. How effective are a...
Introducing How to Vaccinate the World
Tim Harford introduces his new guide to the race to create a Covid-19 vaccine.