Speaker 1: Ever since coronavirus became the biggest story in the world,
Speaker 1: vaccines have been our greatest hope to stop it. It
Speaker 1: just felt like everything was closed off, and so it's like,
Speaker 1: what can I do to get everything to return back
Speaker 1: to normal as soon as possible, because I felt just
Speaker 1: so hopeless. The coronavirus vaccines were produced in record time,
Speaker 1: but they're not slap dash overnight inventions. Their culmination of
Speaker 1: centuries of research and advances. To figure out how they began,
Speaker 1: you have to probe history, myths and legends. A thousands
Speaker 1: of years ago, the son of a local governor got
Speaker 1: very sick from smallpox. This sickness, as caused by inoculation,
Speaker 1: is not unto death. Human history has been shaped by plagues, pandemics, viruses,
Speaker 1: and diseases and the fight against them. Today, they're in
Speaker 1: combat more than ever. My name is Shawn Revive. I'm
Speaker 1: a journalist and I'm hosting a podcast called long Shot,
Speaker 1: the two fifty year Journey to the COVID nineteen Vaccines.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take you deep into the science and the
Speaker 1: people behind the coronavirus vaccines and learn how the fight
Speaker 1: against disease influences our daily lives. We'll learn about the incentives, experiments,
Speaker 1: and accidents that drove vaccine development and the long shadow
Speaker 1: of vaccine fears. And we'll talk with people who study viruses,
Speaker 1: viruses that evolved along with our species. Much like a
Speaker 1: transformer going from a car to a robot, parts of
Speaker 1: the protein just start moving and refolding. Really just asking
Speaker 1: the immune system to do what it does on a
Speaker 1: regular basis. There are some sacrifices you wanna have to make,
Speaker 1: and there are some trials you're gonna have to go through,
Speaker 1: and failures that might have to happen, but failure is
Speaker 1: always progress in a certain sense. And we'll meet some
Speaker 1: of the great minds behind the global effort to get
Speaker 1: us out of this pandemic. Yeah, I think it might
Speaker 1: be the defining point of my of my career. I
Speaker 1: think will always be remembered for this. But I mean
Speaker 1: i'd rather I wish I wasn't. I honestly wish I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I wish it never happened. I keep waiting for the
Speaker 1: other shoe to drop on these vaccines, and it hasn't happened.
Speaker 1: So join me as I explore the two fifty year
Speaker 1: journey to the COVID nineteen vaccines from My Heart Radio
Speaker 1: and School of Humans. This is long shot, launching August four,