“My friend” has a question about the vaccine
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🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's today explained, I'm Sean Ramis from, I was talking to a friend recently who expressed |
| 0:16.2 | some concerns about the vaccine. |
| 0:17.6 | He was worried about mRNA technology, said he'd personally prefer to get a vaccine that |
| 0:22.6 | didn't use it. |
| 0:23.6 | And that got me thinking, what are other questions people have about these shots? |
| 0:27.5 | Like the anti-vaxxers who are worried about 5G or Bill Gates, but people with real, |
| 0:32.9 | legitimate concerns about the science. |
| 0:35.2 | So we reach out to you, listeners, and ask, and you answered with your questions. |
| 0:39.8 | We got a ton of questions from you that we haven't really addressed in great detail |
| 0:44.4 | on the show before. |
| 0:45.8 | So that is what we are going to do today with help from Dr. Deborah Fuller. |
| 0:51.1 | I'm a professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. |
| 0:56.7 | Dr. Fuller has spent decades studying the kinds of vaccines we're now using to fight COVID. |
| 1:02.4 | One of the things that a lot of people don't realize is I think that mRNA vaccines just suddenly |
| 1:07.3 | appeared as a brand new vaccine when COVID-19 started, but there has been research going |
| 1:12.4 | on in this field for over 30 years. |
| 1:15.6 | And I was one of those people 30 years ago who first started working on the idea of putting |
| 1:20.6 | a code into yourselves and express a protein that was stimulated in immune response. |
| 1:26.1 | So you're basically the perfect person to tackle a wide range of questions about all these |
| 1:30.9 | different vaccines. |
| 1:31.9 | Are you game? |
| 1:32.9 | I am totally game. |
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