How The Scientific Community Mobilized Against COVID-19

Published March 10, 2021 at 7:39 AM EST

Nurse Kathe Olmstead prepares a shot that is part of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, N.Y. on July 27, 2020.

In a matter of months, the world has not just one but multiple vaccines to stem the spread of COVID-19.

Almost overnight, the scientific community shifted its focus to study the virus, building on existing knowledge to learn how to fight it.

Today on All Sides with Ann Fisher as a part of our weeklong series A Year of COVID, we take a look at how the pandemic has fueled and, in some ways, hindered scientific discovery.

Guests:

Britt Glaunsinger, virologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Dr. Darrell Gray, II, gastroenterologist, chair of the health system’s health equity steering committee, Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center

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