Your Vaccine Questions, Answered

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Will the vaccine make me feel sick? Is it OK if I see grandma if she's vaccinated but I'm not? And what's the deal with double masking? Listeners had questions about the coronavirus and vaccines, Sam and NPR Short Wave host Maddie Sofia have answers. Sam also talks to his Aunt Betty about her experience getting her COVID-19 vaccination. Then, the view on coming out to the other side of the pandemic with health journalist Bridie Witton in New Zealand.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:03.6	Sam Sanders here.
0:04.9	And before we start the show, I want to say I hope everyone in Texas and elsewhere experiencing
0:10.2	the power outages and winter weather is doing okay and surviving the best they can.
0:17.2	Some of y'all might know I am from San Antonio, Texas and a lot of you have asked, my family
0:21.8	and friends down there, they're doing okay.
0:24.6	Also my aunt Betty who is experiencing winter weather in a different part of the country,
0:29.3	she's alright too.
0:30.8	And as of this past week, she is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
0:35.8	So today we're going to talk more about that, the vaccine and answer some of y'all's questions
0:41.5	about how it all works.
0:43.1	To start, we're going to hear my aunt Betty's vaccine story.
0:46.5	Betty, hi.
0:47.5	Hi Sam.
0:48.5	How are you?
0:49.5	I am for Snowy Day in Delaware, I'm very well.
0:54.1	You aunt Betty are fully vaccinated against coronavirus, right here, right here.
1:00.0	Yes I am, thank God for that.
1:02.0	I got my first shot a lot of month ago and my second shot in my day of this week.
1:07.3	Okay.
1:08.3	And then describe the scene for you getting the shots, how'd you do it?
1:11.2	Well, the first shot was at the DMV and it was just like a mad genius had set it up because
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