In this episode of “To Health and Back,” we’ll hear from Dr. René F. Najera — an epidemiologist and editor of the History of Vaccines site, an online project by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia — to see explore the history of vaccines and vaccine skepticism, and how that same skepticism exists today.
Read the transcript for this episode here.
SHOW NOTES:
- CDC: Read about how to find a COVID-19 vaccination site near you.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Read more about the CDC’s decision to resume the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.
- C-SPAN: Listen and watch as Dr. Richard Besser speaks on the implications of pausing the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
- EpidemioLogical: Read more of Dr. René F. Najera’s writing.
- The History of Vaccines: Read about Dr. Najera and his role as editor of The History of Vaccines site.
- The History of Vaccines: Read about the history of smallpox.
- The Indian Journal of Psychiatry: Read about the MMR vaccine and autism, including the retraction and fraud.
- Johns Hopkins Medicine: Read about COVID-19 vaccines and people of color.
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine: Read about the origins of inoculation.
- Medium: Read Dr. Najera's writing on Medium.com.
- Our World in Data: Read about and examine coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations data.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Read more about the FDA issuing an emergency use authorization for the first COVID-19 vaccine.
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