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
How do you go about avoiding becoming infected by a harmful airborne virus like COVID-19 -- especially if you're a student heading back to campus? There are, of course, a number of blindingly obvious ways to do this. However, because so many people seem to have forgotten them, I thought it worth p
Whether children can tolerate the COVID vaccine at all has hardly been tested. The tests are not entirely harmless, as side effects can occur. That is why tests are first done on strong and healthy people, mostly young adults. Authors: ZDF/logo/Timo Amling/Marion Brand/Heidi Stifel/Jochen Schmidt
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
If you could protect yourself or your children from developing cancer through taking a shot, would you? This week, Risk Bites looks at why HPV vaccines are recommended for protection against cervical and other cancers, and how the risks and benefits pan out. The Risk Bites Team: Producer: Andrew M
The first goal is to protect those who are most at risk: People who could get very sick and die from contracting the virus, or people who interact with high-risk groups or large numbers of people at work. Author: ZDF/logo/Judith Vehar/Marion Brand/Tim Rizzo/Jochen Schmidt Translation and dubbing:
To build up immunity against viruses, there are different vaccine variants: Inactivated vaccines, vector vaccines and mRNA vaccines. Authors: 3sat/nano/Fynn Hendrichs,Franziska Ehrenfeld/Silke Cronauer/Jochen Schmidt Translation and dubbing: alugha Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.co
Vaccinations protect both humans and animals from a wide range of preventable and potentially serious illnesses. With vaccines, we take advantage of one of the most important aspects of the immune system: the ability to develop immunological memory. This means that once a person or animal is expose
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a new coronavirus introduced to humans for the first time. It is spread from person to person mainly through the droplets produced when an infected person speaks, coughs or sneezes. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/WHO Watch this short
How long does it take to get frostbite? Inspired by the polar vortex, childhood myths and a bitterly cold Michigan winter, we set out to find out more about frostbite, and just how dangerous going out in cold weather is. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON FROSTBITE, CHECK THE LINKS: Medical stuff: Unde
An online conversation series on the consequences and management of the pandemic
