Name: Pandemic Fix: Seeking Universal Vaccines
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Duration: 1 h 20 min 21 s
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170816 Like and subscribe. This is an archive, check the link in the end if you are owner. Imagine beating every strain of flu with a single jab. Wiping out your risk of some lethal cancers, HIV, and Ebola during a routine doctor’s visit. That’s the promise of next-generation vaccines, and researchers are closing in on the basic science needed to bring them to reality. Join epidemiologists, virologists, and public-health experts as they share insights on the new wave of vaccine research, and the race to eliminate pandemic threats. Setting the stage for the discussion is a screening of Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s chilling thriller about a deadly flu outbreak and the global race to contain it.

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Original Program Date: June 2, 2012
MODERATOR: Richard Besser
PARTICIPANTS: Laurie Garrett, Gary Nabel, Michael Osterholm, Harold Varmus

Richard Besser's Introduction 00:00

Participant Introductions 3:11

Jean Ashton curator of AIDS in New York: The First Five Years. 6:10

Who gets limited resources and what are the roles of countries? 14:03

What role does social media have in an epidemic? 19:20

Why do we see resistance to vaccines today? 21:32

H1N1 pandemic and our response. 25:58

What were the findings of the counsel that reviewed the H1N1 pandemic? 30:00

Was a difference made in 2009? 34:40

Life expectancy over the last 100 years. 40:10