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 vaccines. With a hell of a lot of vaccine milestones in between. Learn more about your ad-c

Frankenvirus

Sep 29th, 2021 21m 56s

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 learn how it works, and ask why one of this vaccine's creators brought the 1918 flu back from th

Puke Worms

Sep 22nd, 2021 29m 59s

Marina wanted companionship during the loneliness of quarantine, so she got a COVID pet. But nothing went as planned. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information

A Human Challenge

Sep 15th, 2021 32m 24s

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. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for

Long COVID

Sep 8th, 2021 33m 47s

Some coronavirus patients have never recovered. They suffer vivid dreams, insomnia, and a host of other weird symptoms that are nothing like the respiratory illness we think of as COVID-19. They have long COVID, and they’ve had it since the beg

Immature Cells

Sep 1st, 2021 31m 25s

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. And we'll find out what role Jennifer Aniston played in that origin story. Learn more abo

Spike

Aug 25th, 2021 30m 20s

How did scientists figure out how to make a coronavirus vaccine two years before coronavirus struck? And what the hell is a spike protein? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener fo

Blended Mouse Brains

Aug 18th, 2021 26m 15s

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, was the world’s greatest vaccine maker. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.ihe

Not Unto Death

Aug 11th, 2021 34m 33s

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 inoculation entrepreneurs—who made a killing preventing killing, 250 years ago. Learn more

Beginnings

Aug 4th, 2021 42m 51s

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 public. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudi