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They have a genius design. We are all more familiar with masks these days. Learn why N95s work so well.
Read it »This is a great — although a little advanced — explanation of the development of vaccines and how mRNA vaccines are a new technology that may help us beat all kinds of diseases.
Read it »In early 2020, the COVID-19 novel coronavirus was declared a pandemic. We know when a pandemic starts: it’s when a new virus is found all over the world. But when does one end? Find out in this short video. Because it’s a video from the summer of 2020, we already know how some of the […]
Read it »It’s a term we hear a lot but not everyone knows how to define it and why it’s important to get as many people vaccinated as possible.
Read it »mRNA vaccines are a new technology in delivering vaccination but they’ve actually been in development for decades. They work by swapping out a single block of ingredients that maps to the disease they’re targeting. In the future, they may help us develop vaccines within weeks of an outbreak occuring.
Read it »Vaccines are developed in a variety of ways. Most commonly, we think of a vaccine as containing a bit of the disease it’s fighting. That little bit of the disease teaches our immune system to develop antibodies. But the Covid-19 vaccines work differently. They send a message to our RNA to help build our immune […]
Read it »One way to stop an epidemic (even of pandemic proportions) is through vaccinations which increase immunity within the population and prevent viruses from spreading. We call that collective protection, “herd immunity.” Depending on how infectious a virus or disease is, herd immunity needs a greater or lesser proportion of the population to be vaccinated. For […]
Read it »Pandemics are inevitable. But a combination of science, technology, and healthy public policy can help us get ahead of the next one. Bill Gates explains how.
Read it »The mRNA vaccines that combat covid were developed and approved very quickly. This led a lot of people to believe that they couldn’t be safe. The truth is that the technology behind mRNA vaccines has been developed over decades of work.
Read it »We hear that we need to keep our hands clean to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. The most important part of washing hands is using soap. But why? How does soap actually kill a virus like coronavirus?
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