Listen to hosts Samantha Spiers and Cameron Boozarjomehri discuss vaccines, again! But this time in general, instead of specific to COVID-19. Discussion includes an overview of herd immunity, how vaccines work, why vaccines are important, and what vaccine effectiveness means.

Post production by Scott Stronach. 

Sources: 

https://www.immune.org.nz/vaccines/efficiency-effectiveness 

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html 

https://www-the--scientist-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.the-scientist.com/features/why-r0-is-problematic-for-predicting-covid-19-spread-67690/amp?usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D&_js_v=0.1#aoh=15984100265257&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-scientist.com%2Ffeatures%2Fwhy-r0-is-problematic-for-predicting-covid-19-spread-67690 

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.29.174888v1 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31483-5/fulltext#seccestitle140 

https://m.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-doctor-reinfected-with-coronavirus-3-months-after-recovering-635550 

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