Covid boosters, Vaccine hesitancy in pregnancy, Group B strep
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Will we need boosters forever? It’s the question you wanted us to tackle so we’re joined by Prof Beate Kampmann, the Director of The Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in the search for answers.
Then we explore why so few pregnant women are taking up the Covid vaccine even though it is the best option for mother and baby.
And can we stop another infection in babies - Group B Strep - which can have devastating consequences.
PRESENTER: James Gallagher PRODUCER: Beth Eastwood
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| 0:34.4 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Inside Health podcast with me, James Gallagher. It's been |
| 0:39.2 | nearly a year since I had my first COVID jab and oh, how life has changed since then. Like many |
| 0:44.9 | of you, I've since had my second and then a booster, but when will the jabbing end? Will it be |
| 0:50.1 | 4, 722, 103? That's the question you've been filling my inbox with and one will |
| 0:56.3 | endeavour to answer. Also this episode, why are so many pregnant women avoiding the COVID |
| 1:01.7 | vaccine? And can we stop another infection in babies that can be hugely risky? That's |
| 1:07.4 | Group B strep. But first, those boosters I mentioned. Hello, I'm Professor Beatty Kampman |
| 1:12.6 | and I'm the director of the Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. |
| 1:17.1 | Beata, I actually want to start with almost a philosophical question. What is a booster? |
| 1:22.2 | A booster dose is an additional dose of a vaccine that is given after the protection from the original doses |
| 1:29.1 | of the vaccines, which could be one, two or three, has begun to decrease over time. So it's |
| 1:34.2 | literally a boost to your immunological memory. Whenever we talk about vaccination on |
| 1:40.4 | Inside Health, we get so many people emailing in. So I'm going to throw some of those questions |
| 1:44.5 | at you. And Sophie asks an absolute cracker. How many vaccines are we going to end up having? |
| 1:49.4 | That's quite a complex question. We all need to realize that antibody isn't all there is needed |
| 1:55.4 | to combat this disease. But we're measuring antibody because it's the kind of lowest hanging fruit, |
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