347 - COVID-19 Vaccines Update: Boosters, FDA Approval, New Vaccines, and More
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Will we need COVID-19 booster shots and, if so, when? Where is the FDA in its approval process of the vaccines currently under emergency use authorization? What goes into this process? Why, if the current vaccines are so good, are companies still trying to make new ones? Dr. Anna Durbin returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about all things COVID-19 vaccines.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.8 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:50.7 | Today, Johns Hopkins vaccine expert Dr. Anna Durbin returns to the program to answer some |
| 0:55.6 | pressing questions from Stephanie Desmond about COVID-19 vaccines. They discuss booster shots, |
| 1:01.5 | FDA approval, and why companies keep testing new vaccines, even though we already have some |
| 1:06.6 | highly effective ones. Let's listen. Anna Durbin, thanks so much for joining me. Oh, it's my pleasure. |
| 1:13.7 | So I want to talk to you today about vaccines. I have sort of a grab bag of questions about |
| 1:19.1 | vaccines. First, I want to talk about booster shots. There's been a lot of conversation in recent |
| 1:24.9 | days and weeks about whether we would need a booster shot. |
| 1:28.9 | And I guess first, let's explain to people what a booster shot is. |
| 1:32.0 | Oh, that's great. Yeah, there has been a lot in the news. And the booster shot is really sort |
| 1:36.8 | of a nudge to your immune system to say, hey, remember me, gear up, let's make more antibodies. |
| 1:43.4 | Let's be ready in case we see the infection. |
| 1:46.2 | So a true booster shot is the same vaccine that you got earlier. Generally, it can be months |
| 1:53.0 | earlier or years earlier. And it's not unusual for vaccines to require a booster shot. |
| 1:58.8 | We get a tetanus booster shot every 10 years. The question is, |
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