![]() ![]() In this constellation of videos, articles, and links to online resources and websites, explore the science behind vaccines, viruses, and public health in the era of COVID-19. In our contemporary, ever-more-connected world, vaccines are ever-more vital for keeping our relationship with viruses, old and new, in balance. ![]() In fact, we wouldn’t be here without them. Viruses evolved alongside us from our ancestors’ first appearance on Earth, shaping our path as surely as we shaped theirs. We’re most familiar with viruses from the illnesses they can cause when they infect us, which can be as negligible as sniffles or as serious as death, but there’s far more to these tiny, not-quite-alive entities than just human disease. And the vaccines we’ve developed to control those arch enemies have been among the greatest triumphs of science. Everywhere there’s life on Earth, from high up in the atmosphere to deep in the ocean, there are viruses-some 50 million of them in a typical teaspoon of seawater.Ī small subset of those survive and multiply by infecting humans. ![]()
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