With unique access to five vaccine teams around the globe, this is the extraordinary inside story of the unprecedented quest to develop and make vaccines to fight Covid-19.
The extraordinary inside story of the biggest scientific challenge of our age 鈥� following a small band of vaccine scientists around the world who took on Covid-19 and ultimately delivered the weapon to beat it.
As news of the coronavirus broke around the globe, a small group of scientists jumped into action to tackle one of the greatest medical challenges of our time: to create a vaccine against a virus no-one had ever seen before and to do so in record time, all during a deadly, global pandemic.
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The results are in...
Duration: 02:02
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"Vaccine development has never been done at this speed before"
Duration: 02:27
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The race for a vaccine begins鈥�
Duration: 01:33
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00:47Amazing Karaoke
Titanium
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Lesley Sharp |
| Director | Catherine Gale |
| Editor | Cathy Houlihan |
| Executive Producer | Helena Braun |
| Executive Producer | Archie Baron |
| Executive Producer | Janet Tobias |
| Executive Producer | Roger Lopez |
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