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Description: In this video, The Amoeba Sisters interview Lieutenant Joshua Wong of the U.S. Public Health Service to learn more about COVID-19 vaccines. Note: This interview took place 2/8/2021. To see the most up to date information available, please see CDC links in video description. You can read more about Lieutenant Joshua Wong in the expanded video description. ________________________________ Video Table of Contents: 00:00 Intro 0:26 Vaccines Prevent Many Diseases 1:19 Interview Starts 1:38 Question 1 regarding how mRNA vaccines work 3:46 Question 2 regarding safety of vaccines 5:31 Question 3 regarding widespread vaccination 7:22 Question 4 regarding virus variants 9:10 Question 5 regarding vaccine and different variants ________________________________ Lieutenant Joshua Wong Bio: Lieutenant Joshua Wong went to Stanford University for his undergraduate degree in Human Biology with a concentration in Public Health, Global Infectious Diseases, and Social Justice. He then attended Harvard Medical School where he continued to work in global health. He recently finished his residency in Internal Medicine and Global Health at Stanford University. Lieutenant Joshua Wong joined the U.S. Public Health Service and became a CDC disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) in July 2020. He is currently stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with the Dengue Branch. His work so far has involved investigating household transmission rates, using hospital data to help doctors distinguish dengue infections from COVID-19, evaluating the performance of a COVID-19 rapid antigen test, and assisting with an evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine provider sites in Puerto Rico. _________________________________ FURTHER READING: CDC Links: cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety.html cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/vaccine-benefits.html cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/variant.html cdc.gov/eis/index.html _________________________________ The Amoeba Sisters videos center on Pinky's certification and experience in teaching biology at the high school level. Learn more about their work here amoebasisters.com/press-kit and see a full playlist of their biology videos here youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwL0Myd7Dk1F0iQPGrjehze3eDpco1eVz MUSIC: Our intro music designed and performed by Jeremiah Cheshire. End music in this video is listed free to use/no attribution required from the YouTube audio library. COMMUNITY: We take pride in our AWESOME community, and we welcome feedback and discussion. However, please remember that this is an education channel. See YouTube's community guidelines and how YouTube handles comments that are reported by the community. We also reserve the right to remove comments. TRANSLATIONS: Subtitles translated into Italian by Andrea Camposaragna While we don't allow dubbing of our videos, we do gladly accept subtitle translations from our community. Learn more here: amoebasisters.com/pinkys-ed-tech-favorites/community-contributed-subtitles We want to thank our amazing community for the generosity of their time in continuing to create translated subtitles. If you have a concern about community contributed contributions, please contact us.