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The trials, tribulations and timeline of a COVID-19 vaccine | Jerome Kim

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Developing a vaccine usually takes five to 10 years, costs about a billion dollars and has a failure rate of 93 percent. Under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists are being asked to speed that timeline up to…

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Developing a vaccine usually takes five to 10 years, costs about a billion dollars and has a failure rate of 93 percent. Under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists are being asked to speed that timeline up to 12 to 18 months, says Jerome Kim, director general of the International Vaccine Institute. How are things going? Kim updates us on the varied field of vaccine candidates and discusses the challenges of making sure the one that works gets distributed to the whole world. (This virtual conversation, hosted by head of TED David Biello, was recorded June 15, 2020.)

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  1. Snuffy

    July 20, 2020 at 3:29 pm

    First comment on a ted video lol

  2. Ashutosh Kumar

    July 20, 2020 at 3:45 pm

    It is definitely an enlightening video

  3. ANONYMOUS NEPAL

    July 20, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    The Ted-Transcript,`

  4. Psychology Reloaded

    July 20, 2020 at 3:56 pm

    Phone battery 2%plss comment the summary of video….

  5. cataria

    July 20, 2020 at 6:16 pm

    oh tell me please jerome kim how an inert-placebo controlled 4 year long study using fully unvaccinated children as control group fits in an 18 month time period.
    explaining that would be wonderful, especially as this rna vaccine would the first of its kind and permanently changes human dna, which can’t be reversed.
    it would also be helpful to understand the need for something, that has excellent treatments and a death rate below 0.37% for those, that get infected with it, if we can even trust those tests, which we can’t.
    those would would be some interesting things to talk about, BUT TED is not here to talk about those actually important things, but rather push the mandatory, untested dna changing vaccine agenda fast and hard.

  6. Love sucking Candy

    July 20, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    i have no words, subscribe guy 🙅 👅

  7. I THE PREACHER

    July 20, 2020 at 9:04 pm

    A Dilettante Praesumptione Theorem:
    What exactly is Surgical Conscience? (FYI)
    All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed do not necessarily reflect official positions or views or any other entity, past or present. Nothing in the contents should be construed as asserting or implying endorsement of interpretations and factual statements.
    Health Care Workers are supposed to do their jobs under Surgical Conscience.

    Surgical Conscience is professional behavior that demonstrates understanding and application of the principles of surgical technology and the legal, ethical, and moral responsibilities to patients and to the team members for which each practitioner is accountable. Using the moral self-critical sense of what is right and what is wrong.
    During the Pandemic it seems as though 95% of Health Care Workers have thrown Surgical Conscience out the window?
    The following is not Surgical Conscience
    “NYC Hospitals Murdering Black Covid Patients!” ICU Nurse Nicole Sirotek Risks it ALL to REVEAL, Murder, Mismanagement, & Corrupt “Care”

    Surgical Conscience means everything taking place concerns the only the Patient being First with only the considerations from the absolute Right or Wrong stand point for the best health outcome.
    Surgical Conscience is comparable to an Order that can’t be refused.
    Everyone in any Health Care position must work based on Surgical Conscience!

  8. I THE PREACHER

    July 20, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    A Dilettante Presumptuous Theorem:
    Over-reliance on Chemical Hand-Sanitizers Leaves Viable Spoors on the Hands. (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010; 31:565–70 and Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2009; 30:239–44). From: U.S. National Library of Medicine
    ————————————————————–
    How are Chemical Hand Cleaners the answer to such a factitious Violent Magical Virus that is EVERYWHERE? Really, Chemical Hand Cleaners is the answer?
    Chemical Hand Cleaners KILL our Good Human Bacteria that lives to KILL Viruses and you will slowly become seriously ill. Your preventing the Virome and Immune System from keeping you healthy and everyone else.
    You can think for yourself and make your own conclusions by looking here below: National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda MD, 20894 USA

    Hand sanitizers may increase norovirus risk
    To read full article go this Link

    Excerpt:
    “Alcohol-based hand sanitizers may not be the panacea for hand hygiene they were once supposed, as mounting research indicates they may not be effective substitutes for soap and water, and in some cases may actually increase the risk for outbreaks of highly contagious viruses in health care settings.”
    Two studies looking at the effectiveness of alcohol-based hand sanitizers against Clostridium difficile have also indicated that overreliance on the sanitizers may leave viable spoors on the hands of health care workers (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010; 31:565–70 and Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2009; 30:239–44).
    I hope you all perused the Link for yourselves, family, friends and co-workers.

    • THE QUIETER ONE

      July 20, 2020 at 11:27 pm

      for anyone with a neutral judgment previously who is getting some wrong ideas by reading this comment this is for you

      the isopropyl alcohol in hand sanitizers is an excellent non polar organic solvent which denatures and dissolves the outer protein casing which most microbial cells such as bacteria and virus have.

      its not 100% effective of course if a substance has 100% efficiency to kill something living even a cell it cannot exist but

      what it does when you wash your hands with is IF there are any COVID-19 virus cells (they cannot be called cells actually since technically they dont contain the necessary parts of a cell to be considered “living” ) the alcohol will dissolve the protein cover of the virus particles which will leave it vulnerable thus effectively deforming the virus cells and eliminating the risk of too many no of virus particles getting into your body.

      please do not go against science, science is neutral and often going against it ends up in disasters.

    • I THE PREACHER

      July 21, 2020 at 12:31 am

      @THE QUIETER ONE
      A Dilettante Praesumptione Theorem: What is solvent used for?
      Uses for solvents are quite numerous, even outside of industrial and scientific settings — many chemicals for cleaning or personal use, for instance, contain solvents. They are used in detergents, soaps, paint thinners, and a variety of other household chemicals, particularly those used for cleaning purposes.
      Reference: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-solvent.htm

    • I THE PREACHER

      July 21, 2020 at 12:39 am

      @THE QUIETER ONE A Dilettante Praesumptione Theorem: Isopropyl alcohol is a
      Chemical Compound
      :
      Isopropyl Alcohol is a colorless, Flammable Chemical compound with a strong odor.
      As an isopropyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, it is the simplest example of a secondary alcohol, where the alcohol carbon atom is attached to two other carbon atoms. It is a structural isomer of 1-propanol and ethyl methyl ether.
      Like most alcohols, isopropyl alcohol reacts with active metals such as potassium to form alkoxides that can be called isopropoxides. The reaction with aluminium (initiated by a trace of mercury) is used to prepare the catalyst aluminium isopropoxide
      In 1920, Standard Oil first produced isopropyl alcohol by hydrating propene.
      Its major use at the time was not rubbing alcohol but for oxidation to acetone, whose first major use was in World War I for the preparation of cordite, a smokeless, low explosive propellant.

  9. I THE PREACHER

    July 20, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    A Dilettante Praesumptione Theorem:
    WAKE UP Canada and America! “Guidance is not law.”
    This is about the CDC (May 19, 2020) having No Mask Wearing-Distancing Laws or No Human Virome – Herd Immunity Science
    Notice the peculiar Words used to Describe their so-called-Laws about Mask Wearing and Social Discrimination.
    All their Wordiness like Considerations, Implementation, guided, may refer to, may find it helpful to reference, Can Operate, Guiding Principles, meant to supplement—not replace, when Appropriate, Hygiene and Respiratory Etiquette, Teach and reinforce etc.
    All their Wordiness is not written in the Language of Law.
    Their whole premise is a bunch of Suggestions put forward as if they were Laws to follow.
    Their whole premise is illegal as they cannot change any Laws as their website reads “meant to supplement—not replace” Laws already in existence.
    A Legislative Body gathers together to Decide New Laws.
    The following are some things copied from the CDC Website.
    Considerations for Schools
    Updated May 19, 2020

    how to implement these considerations
    Implementation should be guided
    School-based health facilities may refer to CDC’s Guidance for U.S. Healthcare Facilities and may find it helpful to reference the Ten Ways Healthcare Systems Can Operate Effectively During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Guiding Principles to Keep in Mind
    These considerations are meant to supplement—not replace—any state, local, territorial, or tribal health and safety laws, rules, and regulations with which schools must comply.
    Promoting Behaviors that Reduce Spread
    Staying Home when Appropriate
    Hand Hygiene and Respiratory Etiquette
    Teach and reinforce use of cloth face coverings
    THE PURPOSE OF THIS PLANDEMIC IS TO “CONDITION” EVERYONE TO FOLLOW THEIR RULES UNDER ENSLAVEMENT OR BE DISPATCHED.
    The CDC is promoting mis-management of everyone’s healthcare.
    There will be a THIRD WAVE if most people won’t wear a mask.
    They have a Corona Virus on-hold to Release into the General Public.
    Their THIRD WAVE on-hold corona virus will KILL in MASSES.
    All to make you Comply with a Vaccination (every year) and an embedded Tracing Chip.
    Their words are meaningless, but most people are not “Thinking Outside the Box.”
    WAKE UP Canada and America! “Guidance is not law.”
    Always watch, listen or read using your Critical Thinking.
    Always question what authority figures purport.
    Always do your own research on the subjects.
    Always make your own conclusion.
    Always think outside the box.

  10. I THE PREACHER

    July 20, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    A Dilettante Praesumptione Theorem: Be Woke Up AMERICA AND CANADA!
    The evil minded medical and governmental authorities are in the process of “Conditioning” us to “Rearrange” us for their future.
    How can breathing in your own carbon dioxide be healthy. You are lowering your oxygen intake to all regions of the body, which releases stress hormones, which then lowers your immune strength and you get very sick, very fast.
    Plus, while wearing a mask you are breathing back germs to stay in the back of the nostrils. And that’s what makes someone test positive, when he/she is not actually sick, but it’s the mask that caused them to appear positive.
    It’s all a big lying game to convince you to take their Vaccine with a Tracing-Chip to Control You. Be Woke Up AMERICA AND CANADA!
    During the following YouTube Video at 13:43 there is a presentation by Yoweri Museveni the President of Uganda who has studied a PDF document available from the Rockefeller Foundation about how all and everything about and connected directly and indirectly about PlanDemic is made is made known in his speech. It’s the Final Conquer and Divide.

    Doctor Jensen Under Fire for Exposing America & Vaccine Evil Plan to Depopulate Africa

    Check out Peggy Hall – The Healthy American – Peggy Hall explains Fake Laws on Mask Wearing!

  11. THE QUIETER ONE

    July 20, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    dont even bother to read the I THE PREACHER’s comments btw guys. you are welcome

    • ZHANG YUAN

      July 22, 2020 at 6:56 pm

      THE QUIETER ONE thx man

  12. janeth villacorta

    July 21, 2020 at 12:00 am

    2 or 3 years??????? 🙁

    • Bella Bella

      July 21, 2020 at 6:55 am

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  13. I THE PREACHER

    July 21, 2020 at 12:40 am

    A Dilettante Presumptuous Theorem:
    Isopropyl alcohol a GREAT Chemical Compound Can I Use it on ..
    In 1920, Standard Oil first produced Isopropyl Alcohol by hydrating propene.
    Its major use at the time was not rubbing alcohol but for oxidation to acetone, whose first major use was in World War I for the preparation of Cordite, a Smokeless, Low Explosive Propellant.
    Why would anyone liberally use harsh chemicals on the pores of his or her skin?
    Plain old Ivory Soap is optimally best for cleaning your hands and other areas.
    If Isopropyl alcohol is a GREAT Chemical Compound Can I Use it on my Face, my Chest, my Legs, my Groin, my Genitals?
    If Isopropyl alcohol cleans my hands then can I clean a roast with it before cooking?
    If Isopropyl alcohol cleans my hands then can I clean my Infant Child with it instead of bath water and a bar of soap?
    Can I clean my Pets with Isopropyl alcohol?
    What is the efficacy of long term use of Isopropyl alcohol
    Some people want to know these things!

  14. I THE PREACHER

    July 21, 2020 at 1:04 am

    A Dilettante Praesumptione Theorem:
    One other question is on everyone’s mind?
    Really, are Plastic dividers the answer to a Magical Omnipotent Omnipresent Virus?

  15. Startup Funding Event Global

    July 21, 2020 at 2:06 am

    With so many working on a vaccine, I think it’s highly likely that we develop a vaccine soon 🙂

  16. AB E Kawser

    July 21, 2020 at 4:29 am

    Large scale phase-3 trial is important for understanding safety

  17. Janet Baldwin

    July 21, 2020 at 11:51 am

    Lots is hidden also we are carrying different burden but it’s better earlier known than living in darkness. Lately, my boyfriend has been acting weird lately but I never took it serious however, I expressed myself online not up to 2 days I received a mail in order to be given full 100% assurance of my relationship status if it’s still as when we first met.. but I was proved wrong based on the access I was provided to by Cybercrownhacking. It’s painful but it’s better if you really think you feel this way same as I was last few month, you can hit me up or mail [email protected]

  18. Jorgiño Luis

    July 21, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    You guys get vaccinated…for your mental illness… Elites will not prevail for much longer. This SCAMM will be unveiled sooner or later. No more SCAMMDEMIC 19..

  19. Debbie Carroll

    July 22, 2020 at 1:21 pm

    “I left that part of the question blank.” This was obviously staged. 🙄

  20. Uwa

    July 22, 2020 at 8:30 pm

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  21. Dana Audiffren

    July 23, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    120000 people die every day in world! Stop your joke on Covid19 and trying to sell us your vaccine who will kill more people in the first instance than Covid19 will ever attend and will leave long-lasting damages in people after 3 to 5 years, CANCER, AUTOIMMUNITY! How stupid is your population…. get off your masks, stop fearing and go into nature, take vitamin D and C and strengthen your immunity system. You two clowns, your blabla is boring and full of bullshit and wrong information. You are part of the media who is spreading the propaganda that brain washes people since 7 months! Report the truth about mRNA that has NEVER been tested on the population and needs at least 5 years of testing until being injected into humans. You already tried to develop these vaccines for MERS, SARS-cov-1 and other viruses. Why aren’t they working since 2003???? The recent study in GB must be cancelled because half of the testing persons suffer now for the rest of their live from autoimmune sicknesses, they lost their body defense against ANY sickness. Furthermore Bill Gates strangely finances all the laboratories with “top candidates” and we are allowed to doubt his “philanthropic” interest in humanity. The other way round, no matter which of the candidates wins, he’ll earn billions compared to the few hundred millions he spent… Microsoft : creating a virus and delivering the software to eliminate it, thats business guys, only systemic business!!!! Start thinking like them and you’ll understand that your safety and your health are of none interest to them.

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