Chasing Covid: Inside A Vaccine Lab
Client
Date
January 5, 2018
My Team
Producer/Director Carl Kurlander
Producer Janet Smith
Co-Producer/Editor Andy Esper
Category
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.