REBROADCAST: ...if COVID vaccines are safe and effective? (with Shira Shafir)
Ever Wonder? from the California Science Center
English - August 04, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBScience Education science engineering museums science centers Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
As time goes on, it’s getting easier to get a COVID-19 vaccine—in many places in L.A. County you can now just walk up to a vaccine site without an appointment. Millions of Californians have already gotten their Fauci Ouchie, but it’s also okay to have questions about the vaccine.
Do you ever wonder if vaccines are safe and effective?
This very question came up when we last talked to Kenneth Phillips—if you haven’t listened to his episode about contact tracing yet, be sure to check it out. Ken recommended that we talk to Shira Shafir (@IDPhD), a professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She’s also working with the L.A. County Department of Public Health to help train contact tracers. She answered all our questions about the vaccines, from how scientists and doctors know they’re safe to when we might be able to start vaccinating younger kids.
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