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Read more about the RIAVaccine Questions Podcast
The Royal Irish Academy and Health Research Board have teamed up to bring you Vaccine Questions, a podcast series on vaccines and vaccination featuring experts and scientists from around Ireland.
In each episode, science journalist Dick Ahlstrom chats with experts from public health, immunology, virology, statistics, bioethics to behavioural science about how science is helping us to tackle the spread of coronavirus. By asking these experts your questions on vaccines and vaccination the podcast aims to provide the public with a reliable and trustworthy source of information.
Vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives around the world by providing long term protection against infectious diseases to people of all ages.
Read the RIA Vaccines Expert Statement
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