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Feb 2021
29m 14s

SMILE: The Smart Vaccine Portable Carrie...

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The whole world is racing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Yet in this race, developing countries are running dangerously behind as the number of COVID vaccines doses that arrive to them is minimal and the process of transporting these doses is difficult. In this episode, Founder & CEO of the startup Ideabatic Kitty Liao, joins us to discuss how this vacc ... Show More
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