Listen: Pfizer’s Covid-19 mystery, Ashish Jha on pandemic response, & STAT turns 5

When are we getting Covid-19 vaccine data? Will concerts ever be safe again? And what’s a “Bionomy”?

We discuss all that and more on this week’s episode of “The Readout LOUD,” our first with new co-host Meg Tirrell of CNBC. First, we break down Pfizer’s anticlimactic Covid-19 vaccine announcement and discuss just when the world might expect pivotal data from its all-important trial. Then, Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, joins us to discuss the next few months of Covid-19 response and what it’s like to be a pandemic celebrity. Finally, to commemorate STAT’s fifth anniversary, executive editor Rick Berke calls in to reminisce about the early days and field some trivia questions.

For more on what we cover, here’s the latest on Pfizer’s vaccine; here’s a look back at five years of STAT’s reporting; and here’s our complete coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

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