Vaccines take a lot of work and time. A turn around time of several years is considered fast! That is too slow to help with a pandemic that is here right now. But next generation vaccines promise something much quicker. How? With guns. Lots of guns. And by stealing the virus’s own tool to use against it!

Shotgun Vaccine

The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition explores the science and history of pandemics (appropriate for middle school and up). Each week, fascinating new three-minute modules are reported by science writers from the Loh Down on Science "Hive." Subjects include: global crises' unexpected "silver linings" (i.e. technological innovations), what Isaac Newton did during HIS 1600's college quarantine, the science of soap, COVID-19's surprising impacts on climate change, and Folding@home, a cool new project seeking to model a coronavirus cure with the help of our home computers (it worked for Ebola!).

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Shotgun Vaccine

Shotgun Vaccine