The Omicron Variant Defined by Neil deGrasse Tyson & Regeneron President George Yancopoulos

What’s the Omicron Variant? How do vaccines work? And what about monoclonal antibody remedy? On this episode of StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson has a wide-ranging and fairly informative dialog with George Yancopoulos, president of Regeneron, the corporate that created the monoclonal antibody remedy now getting used within the battle towards COVID-19. And there’s an fascinating facet be aware: In the course of the Seventies, Tyson and Yancopoulos have been highschool classmates collectively at Bronx Science. They’ve each come a great distance, and now they re-unite to clarify the science behind the most recent part of the pandemic.

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