Coronavirus Vaccine, Immigration Ban, Cuttlefish 3D Glasses

Race to Develop a Vaccine for Coronavirus (0:29) Guest: Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD, Associate Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Co-Director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Research The threat of coronavirus in the US remains very low, with only 11 confirmed cases and no deaths. But globally, it has already sickened more than 21,000 people and killed more than 420. Most of those cases are in China, where the outbreak started and is now more deadly than SARS was 18 years ago. Researchers at the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development have a vaccine for SARS they think could be useful against this new coronavirus, too. So why isn’t it already available?  Trump Administration Expands Immigration Ban to Major African Countries (19:50) Guest: Charles Kuck, Managing Partner of Kuck | Baxter Immigration Partners, Past National President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) The Trump Administration on Friday added six more countries to the so-called “travel ban” – but in this case, the restrictions don’t actually apply to travelers coming to the US for a visit. It’s really more of an “immigration ban” on citizens from Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan looking to live or work in the United States. People from two other countries – Tanzania and Sudan – will be banned from applying for visas through the “diversity lottery” which issues tens of thousands of visas every year to countries with historically low numbers of immigrants coming to the US. The Skills College Students Need to Be More Mentally Resilient in Stressful Times (37:59) Guest: Marty Swanbrow Becker, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of  Educational Psychology at Florida State University  College brings so many new experiences and demands, it’s normal for students to feel overwhelmed. But the American College Health Association’s latest annual survey found more than half of college students around the country have felt hopeless, very sad o