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Herd immunity

Five questions and answers: What is herd immunity, and why is it so important? How many people need to be immune, how do you calculate it, and what are the requirements? Author: 3sat/nano/Raketenfilm/Andreas Gust/Konstantin Fuchs/ Translation and redub: alugha Click here to see more videos: http

What is political immunity?

Politicians in the German Bundestag are under special protection: political immunity. This means, for example, that the police can't investigate them. But why does this protection exist? Authors: ZDF/logo/Simone Klein/Renate Becker, Heidi Stifel Translation and dubbing: alugha Click here to see m

World Immunization Week

The World Health Organisation works with countries across the globe to raise awareness of the value of vaccines and immunization. It emphasizes how immunization saves lives and supports people everywhere to get the vaccinations needed against deadly diseases. Our video explains the vaccine journey.

ScienceCasts: Your Immune System... In Space

NASA studies are looking at the effects of space travel on the human body's immune system. Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Functional Immune Story: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/functional_immune Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA

Excessive immune response

In the so-called cytokine storm, larger and larger amounts of cytokines are released uncontrollably. They then also "mark" healthy cells and cause the immune cells to attack the body's own tissue. Authors: 3Sat/Nano/docuVista Filmproduktion/Marilena Schulte, Maike Wurtscheid/Jörg Becker, Sergios Ro

Why don't people take measles more seriously?

How do you decide whether you should be worried about communicable diseases like measles? University of Michigan’s Professor Brian Zikmund-Fisher returns to Risk Bites to explain the "availability heuristic" – the way we all use our memory and feelings to inform our risk perceptions about infectious

Should you get the COVID vaccine?

Five reasons you might hesitate to get the COVID vaccine, and why you should probably get it anyway: 0:46 - Unknown risks 1:48 - Effectiveness 2:28 - Fake news 3:30 - COVID conspiracy theories 4:00 - Your right not to be vaccinated Even if you are worried about getting the COVID vaccine, or are c

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET SICK?

Whether you caught the common cold or came down with something much worse, have you ever wondered what is actually going on inside your body? Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/LifeNoggin The science of depression: https://bit.ly/2zTZmNm Life Noggin is a weekly animated educational