Long Shot Podcast
1) The 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 vaccines. With a hell of a lot of vaccine milesto...Show More
2) 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 learn how it works, and ask why one of this vaccine'...Show More
3) Puke Worms
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 omn...Show More
4) 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. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodca...Show More
5) 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 respiratory illness we think of as COVID-19. They have ...Show More
6) 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. And we'll find out what role Jennifer Aniston pl...Show More
7) 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? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodc...Show More
8) 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, was the world’s greatest vaccine maker. Learn m...Show More
9) 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 inoculation entrepreneurs—who made a killing prev...Show More
10) 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 public. Learn more about your ad-choices at https...Show More