As time goes on, it\u2019s getting easier to get a COVID-19 vaccine\u2014in many places in L.A. County you can now just walk up to a vaccine site without an appointment. Millions of Californians have already gotten their Fauci Ouchie, but it\u2019s also okay to have questions about the vaccine.
Do you ever wonder if vaccines are safe and effective?\xa0
This very question came up when we last talked to Kenneth Phillips\u2014if you haven\u2019t listened to his episode about contact tracing yet, be sure to check it out. Ken recommended that we talk to Shira Shafir (@IDPhD), a professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She\u2019s also working with the L.A. County Department of Public Health to help train contact tracers. She answered all our questions about the vaccines, from how scientists and doctors know they\u2019re safe to when we might be able to start vaccinating younger kids.\xa0
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