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Apr 2021
30m 15s

Bonus interview with WNYC's Science Dict...

Sam Kean, Bleav
About this episode
A two-fer: (1) A bonus interview with me about the orphan vaccine episode, from a great WNYC podcast called Science Diction. (2) A short episode of Science Diction on Edward Jenner and the very first vaccines. 
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