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Read more about the RIAThe Vaccine Questions podcast has been developed by the Royal Irish Academy to help the public make more informed decisions on vaccination.
In each 20-minute episode, Dick Ahlstrom will chat to experts in public health, immunology, virology, bioethics, statistics and behavioural science. He will ask questions sent in by you, the public, to make sense of the impending vaccination programme in Ireland .
Vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives around the world by providing long term protection against infectious diseases to people of all ages. Failure to vaccinate threatens the whole community. Vaccines’ community protection is now in danger- it is being undermined by the incorrect view that vaccination is not safe.
With Northern Ireland vaccination for coronavirus underway and rollout of coronavirus vaccines in Ireland now imminent, the RIA has created this podcast to give people reliable and trustworthy information.
Luke O'Neill, MRIA speaks to Dick Ahlstrom, in the first episode of our new Vaccine podcast series, about the first COVID-19 vaccine given on the Island of Ireland, why this is such exciting news and why it is such an amazing achievement for science.
A new podcast series on vaccines and vaccination, where we ask experts the questions you want answered
The risk posed by not vaccinating is far greater than any risk associated with receiving a vaccine says the Royal Irish Academy's Life and Medical Sciences committee who wants to help the public make more informed decisions on vaccination.