Viruses and Vaccines

An Everyday Dissection

There's a lot of information flying around about viruses and vaccines, so Nick and Ellie decided to make a one-stop shop about virus and vaccine fundamentals. Why are viruses spiky? How are vaccines made? Why can singing cause super spreading? Can Santa catch Covid-19? Learn the answers to these questions along with vital information about Rocky and Jonathon Groff in this latest episode of An Everyday Dissection.

An Everyday Dissection can be found on twitter @edissect, where you can learn more about our episode content and get updates on the podcast.This podcast is hosted by Nick Lemmer (@lemmer_nick) and Ellie Weise (@allelellie). Our theme song was written by Evan Zobel and our art was created by Madeline Henrickson (IG: art_that_is_no_bueno).

Want to learn more? Here's some sources we used for the episode to get you started:

Intro to Viruses:

https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Virus

https://www.livescience.com/53272-what-is-a-virus.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21523/

How viruses spread:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/viruses-what-they-are-how-they-spread-and-how-we-fight-them

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-how-is-it-transmitted

Vaccine development:

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/index.php/content/articles/vaccine-development-testing-and-regulation

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/how-do-vaccines-work

Vaccine history:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2030033

https://www.pharmacist.com/article/covid-19-vaccine-faces-black-communities-centuries-long-mistrust-health-care