Long Shot
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Long Shot
Driven by a pandemic unprecedented in our lifetimes —a virus that has killed our neighbors, our friends, our families—we are witnesses to the massive international effort to create COVID-19 vaccines and get shots in arms. The vaccines were developed in record time, but they evolved from centuries of...
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11 episodesThe Super Episode
The final episode of Long Shot travels millions of years into the past to when coronaviruses first appeared, and brings us back to the future of COVID...
Frankenvirus
The future of coronavirus vaccines may be an engineered spike protein called HexaPro. And it's carried into the human body by a bird disease. We'll le...
Puke Worms
Marina wanted companionship during the loneliness of quarantine, so she got a COVID pet. But nothing went as planned.
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A Human Challenge
Meet Jacob Hopkins, one of the first people to contract COVID-19 on purpose. He's part of the first human challenge trial for coronavirus.
Long COVID
Some coronavirus patients have never recovered. They suffer vivid dreams, insomnia, and a host of other weird symptoms that are nothing like the respi...
Immature Cells
Moderna started with essentially zero employees before becoming one of the biggest names in COVID-19 vaccines. We'll speak with the company's founders...
Spike
How did scientists figure out how to make a coronavirus vaccine two years before coronavirus struck? And what the hell is a spike protein?
Blended Mouse Brains
Jeryl Lynn Hilleman has the rare distinction of having a vaccine named after her, because it’s made from her cells. And her father, Maurice Hilleman,...
Not Unto Death
Nicola Pasquarelli is a human guinea pig, one of the first people on earth to get a COVID-19 vaccine. We'll also meet the Sutton family, the first big...
Beginnings
A legend about ancient inoculators on a sacred mountain, and the remarkable story of how the genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first released to the p...