Video number 43 of the channel going into a big discussion about many issues surrounding the development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to protect against COVID-19. There are many good questions and many valid concerns people have about this whole process and here I wanted to spend some time delving into all of this. I’ve broken the video up into 4 main ideas and a final grouping of questions we want to learn answers to as time goes on. The 4 main ideas involve questions about side effects from the vaccines, the question of whether this is rushed and why we’ve been able to make the vaccine so fast, questions about whether we will need annual vaccination and then questions about DNA vs RNA vaccines and the differences and issues there. It’s a long video but the timestamps below can help to navigate to each of the main ideas.
Timestamps
0:02:20 – End of intro and into topic one of side effects from vaccination (the short term and potential of long term)
0:10:28 – Topic two, tackling the question of whether this is rushed or not
0:16:36 – Topic three, questions about how long lived immunity is and whether we need yearly vaccines
0:18:48 – Topic four, RNA vs DNA questions
0:23:59 – Various questions and things we’d love to learn about these vaccines being produced
0:26:52 – Closing remarks
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