Motherhood Meets Medicine

83. New COVID Boosters, Pediatric COVID Vaccine, and Monkeypox with Dr. Elisabeth Marnik


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Growing up in an anti-vaccine household can give you some very interesting outlooks in life. Dr. Elisabeth Marnik was one of those children whose mother didn’t believe in vaccines. However, Liz went to school and received her Ph.D in Biochem genetics and Immunology which changed her viewpoint on vaccines and why they are important. Liz shares with the world her knowledge and her opinions on Instagram and expresses that vaccines are healthy to take. 

Dr. Elisabeth Marnik is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Biochemistry at a small university in Maine. In her spare time she communicates science to the general public on Instagram at @sciencewhizliz. When not teaching or thinking about science she spends much of her time with her husband and two children exploring nature while hiking or running!

In today’s episode we will be discussing everything from the new Bivalent Covid Booster to the pediatric Covid Vaccine for children under five, as well as Monkeypox. 

In this episode we discuss:

  • What it was like living in an anti-vaxxer household.
  • The current data for infection and deaths related to COVID.
  • What the booster shot is and if we should take it.
  • Vaccinating our kids under five and how safe it can be.
  • Monkeypox and how it spread within adults due to close contact
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