Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Science's race against COVID
LA, San Diego, and Riverside counties have run out of ICU space at their hospitals. COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are still ballooning.
By Madeleine Brand • • 50m ListenLA, San Diego, and Riverside counties have run out of ICU space at their hospitals. COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are still ballooning. Given the devastation, it’s hard to appreciate how quickly the scientific community developed multiple vaccine candidates for COVID-19, something that had never been done before, and in record time for any vaccine. KCRW talks about this astonishing feat with Ed Yong, science writer at The Atlantic. His latest story is “How Science Beat the Virus.”
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Southern California has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. LA, San Diego, and Riverside counties have run out of ICU space at their hospitals. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths are still ballooning.
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