With the expected FDA release of the first vaccines to prevent COVID-19 before the end of 2020, the United States is poised to begin distributing a vaccine with priority given to healthcare workers. Temple Health is now preparing to enter this first phase of vaccine distribution.
What do you need to know about the vaccine and how its availability will affect you?
A special Q&A panel session with Temple Health and Fox Chase Cancer Center experts addresses the science of the soon-to-be released COVID-19 vaccine. Discussion focuses on safety and efficacy, the development process, messengerRNA, potential side effects, and the continued role of mitigation efforts, among other topics.
Featured panelists include:
1. Tony S. Reed, MD, MBA, CPE, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Temple University Health System and Temple University Hospital, Inc.
2. Glenn F. Rall, PhD, Professor and Chief Academic Officer, Fox Chase Cancer Center and co-author of Principles of Virology, 5th Edition.
JUMP TO Q&A VIDEO TOPICS:
1:20 How can we know if a vaccine is safe and effective?
5:13 The development process seemed to move pretty fast. I remember at the beginning we were told a vaccine would take years. Now we are receiving doses in December. What happened?
8:18 Can we trust information from the CDC?
12:16 Can we trust information from the companies about their own vaccines?
16:01 What is messengerRNA? I hear that it manipulates my DNA so I shouldn’t take it. Is that true?
21:03 Are the vaccines FDA approved? What does emergency authorization mean?
23:41 What are the side effects of vaccines like this?
29:42 I know a vaccine isn’t treatment, but if I take a vaccine does that mean I can take my mask off, go visit my grandmother and go back to life as normal?
32:53 The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are getting a lot of attention, but what other vaccines are in development? Do they use mechanisms other than messengerRNA?
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