Vaccines: Dose 2 (ft. Catriona Nguyen-Robertson)

This episode, Kate and Matt are joined once again by our resident immunologist Catriona Nguyen-Robertson! We hit you up with your second dose of vaccine science, expanding on our previous vaccine episode. We start with a quick recap of the past ep’s key points: what are vaccines, how do they work, and what is new and cool about the COVID ones? Then we talk about second doses! Why do we need a second dose of the COVID vaccine, but not for some other vaccines? We also chat about booster shots… will we need them in the future? Why/why not? And is it possible to build tolerance to repeated vaccine doses? We also touch on why some COVID vaccines recommended for some age groups and not others, and how is that risk calculated. Kate then tackles a listener question about babies – why do they put everything in their mouths?! If you enjoyed Catriona’s contribution to the episode and want to find more of her, you can follow her on twitter @CatrionaNR, Instagram @nyuroscientist, and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NtXSj9jH06SHNmsKhyfuQ). And, as always, you can find us @curiosityrat on twitter, instagram, and facebook, and send your listener questions in to curiosityrat@gmail.com We also now have a Patreon! If you love our content and want to support us you can jump on to https://www.patreon.com/curiosityrat and become a patron. There is absolutely ZERO pressure but if you have as little as $1/month you can chuck it our way to help us out and show you appreciate all the time and effort that goes into making this show. Listener Question References: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2364215 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ss.37119780403 https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/fulltext/384470 https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/pdf/parents_pdfs/milestonemomentseng508.pdf https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/newborn-senses https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03004430.2020.1756792 https://www.healthline.com/health/baby/baby-mouthing https://news.llu.edu/patient-care/common-household-items-that-could-be-life-threatening-your-child