Infectious diseases

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05 — 1.5MB)

Subscribe: RSS

People who received the flu vaccine experienced fewer strokes in the subsequent flu season than those …

Does getting a flu vaccine reduce your risk of stroke? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:06 — 1.5MB)

Subscribe: RSS

Don’t throw out your mask yet. That’s the advice of Johns Hopkins infectious disease expert Anna …

Even when you’re vaccinated keeping up with other measures to prevent infectious disease is a good idea, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:01 — 1.4MB)

Subscribe: RSS

Fall is here, and with it more indoor activities and more viruses circulating, including Covid and …

Now is the time to get both your Covid booster and the flu vaccine, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05 — 1.5MB)

Subscribe: RSS

 Today’s Covid vaccines are based on eliciting antibodies, proteins that circulate in the blood and bind …

Why don’t currently developed Covid vaccines cover all the variants? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:07 — 1.5MB)

Subscribe: RSS

Mid-pandemic, studies suggested that a single vaccine known as a pan vaccine would soon be developed …

Will there be a vaccine against all the Covid variants anytime soon? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:04 — 1.5MB)

Subscribe: RSS

Covid has taken us on a wild ride, throwing out new variants with dizzying regularity. Now …

When should you get the new bivalent Covid vaccine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:03 — 1.4MB)

Subscribe: RSS

You may have already had two Covid vaccines plus boosters, and now are not feeling much …

The new bivalent Covid vaccines should help with a fall/winter surge, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →