Chasing Covid: Inside A Vaccine Lab

Chasing Covid: Inside A Vaccine Lab

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Date

January 5, 2018

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Producer/Director Carl Kurlander

Producer Janet Smith

Co-Producer/Editor Andy Esper

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Educational Film

About Project

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-the-fight-against-polio-was-won/

At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, having produced a movie about the development of the Salk polio vaccine, “The Shot Felt Round The World“, Carl wrote an article on The Deadly Polio Epidemic and Why It Matters to Coronavirus 

The article went viral, being shared over 26,000 on facebook and in publications around the world.   It also caught the attention of a producer from CBS Sunday Morning, and Carl ended up on a segment with Dr. Paul Duprex, the Jonas Salk Chair, the director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Vaccine Research.

How The Fight Against Polio Was Won

As project for Pitt’s Center for Creativity, a new thirty minute film has been made, Chasing Covid, documenting present day efforts to develop a Covid-19 vaccine framed by the collective effort that made the Salk polio vaccine possible.

This film will be made available to schools and educators after its premiere in April 2021.

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