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comfortable to ask questions. There is little that a doctor loves more than a teenager who

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You should not feel shy. If you are nervous about getting a vaccine, ask us about it.

Welcome to Kid News Convos. I'm Tori. And there are a lot of questions these days about

childhood vaccines, especially with new reports on the ongoing spread of measles cases in the U.S.

So today we're going to have a conversation on this important topic with Dr. Joel Gator

Warsh, a board-certified pediatrician who's written many books. His latest is called Between

a Shot and a Hard Place. So thank you for being here today, Doctor. Thank you for having me on.

So first of all, can you answer a basic question? What exactly are vaccines?

The main thing to understand for a vaccine is it's meant to give you either a small part of an infection or the whole infection,

but in a way that's either killed or just a little small part of it.

So that way your body can be exposed to the infection without really getting sick.

So we're trying to make sure that you're exposed to this.

So that way you just get maybe some minor symptoms.

You might hurt a little bit, but you don't get the full infection and you

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