Vaccines for dummies Ebook

Vaccines For Dummies will explain what a vaccine is and how they work, trace the history of immunization from the earliest efforts to the 19th century introduction of the first safe an effective vaccine, and explore the anti-vaccination argument. Readers will find out the difference between vaccines for viral and bacterial conditions, how modern vaccines are created, diseases for which vaccines are currently available, suggested schedule for child and adult immunizations, where the US stands with the COVID vaccine and more. Vaccines For Dummies will cover the benefits, the risks associated with opting out on vaccines, plus clearing up myths and misinformation.

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Megan Coffee, MD, PhD, (NY, NY) is a faculty member at the Grossman School of Medicine at New York University Hospital (NYU). She is an attending physician in infectious diseases at Bellevue Hospital in NYC and also teaches on communicable diseases in humanitarian crises at Columbia University. She collaborates with a team at NYU to better predict disease severity in COVID, while also using machine learning to better recognize disease transmission in advance and study vaccine hesitancy as well as modeling ventilation. Sharon Perkins, RN (Medford, NJ) is the co-author of more than 10 Dummies titles including Pregnancy For Dummies, Healthy Aging For Dummies, Dads Guide to Babys First Year For Dummies, and most recently, Getting Pregnant For Dummies.

Year

2021

Format

Ebook

Author

Megan Coffee

Publisher

John Wiley