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T

he COVID-19 pandemic has a lot
of us talking about vaccines.
But those conversations sometimes
have more questions than answers-
especially for those who have grown
up in a world that has always had vaccines.
So, we reached out to experts to talk about
how vaccines are developed, how they're
tested, how quickly they can get to us and why
they're so important.
That last part is pretty easy to understand.
" Vaccines save lives, " says Claire Hannan,
executive director of the nonprofit Association
of Immunization Managers, who holds a master's degree in public health. " They're probably
the greatest public health intervention that we
have in protecting against disease. "

The Basics

To understand how vaccines
are made, it's important to know
how they work.
When germs (bacteria or viruses) infect our
bodies, our immune systems fight back and
produce antibodies, which are proteins that
help ward off infections and provide protection
against getting a particular disease again, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
Vaccines work by imitating infections and
causing our immune systems to produce antibodies for specific diseases.
Although vaccines can cause side effects,
most of them are mild-such as a sore arm

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Interactive: See How
Vaccines Work

To learn more about how vaccines work, check
out an interactive animation and quiz put
together by The History of Vaccines, an educational site created by the College of Physicians
of Philadelphia. Visit historyofvaccines.org/
content/how-vaccines-work.

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