Welcome to Getting Curious.

I'm Jonathan Vaness and every week I sit down for a 30 minute or 40 minute or 50 minute

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

So usually guys, when I record an episode and then when it comes out they're closer together,

this gorgeous episode on vaccines we actually recorded on January 21st so I've had it in

the bank for a little bit but here's the thing.

When this episode was recorded I had just heard the beginning of what was becoming the

measles outbreak in Washington and New York on the news but we really didn't know yet

because it wasn't that it hadn't proliferated so much.

It's interesting now that two months later we find that these outbreaks are still happening

and there continues to be like legislation that's been proposed and come out and there's

been a lot of controversy around it.

So obviously vaccines are always controversial.

It's a thing.

So today I'm joined by Dr. Nina Shapiro, director of pediatric ear, nose and throat at the

Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

to come and tell us a little bit about this hype around vaccines and medicine and what

is the tea with vaccines and tea.

Welcome to getting curious.

This is Jonathan Vaness.

I'm very excited to welcome Dr. Nina Shapiro, author of hype.

Honey, I love this book.

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