Vaccine experts answer your questions about COVID-19

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What niggling questions do you have about COVID-19 vaccines? Should pregnant people get vaccinated? Will vaccines be given to children?

We filmed leading vaccine experts at BC Children’s Hospital answering some of the most common questions related to COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine hesitancy.

Watch the entire collection of videos here:

COVID-19 vaccine questions and answers

Dr. Manish Sadarangani, director of the Vaccine Evaluation Center at BC Children’s Hospital and an investigator with BC Children’s and Sauder Family Chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of British Columbia (UBC), has spent more than a dozen years on vaccine development, clinical trials and studying vaccine impact.

Dr. Julie Bettinger, an investigator at the Vaccine Evaluation Center and a professor in the department of pediatrics at UBC, studies vaccine safety, hesitancy and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Who better to provide you with succinct answers to pressing questions that you can share with your patients, family and friends?

Should I get vaccinated if I’m pregnant?

When will children be vaccinated?

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