How does the body stay healthy?
How are infectious diseases caught?
The body’s response to infectious diseases
How infections have effected society and the changing ideas in society brought about by science
How vaccines were discovered and developed
How do vaccines work?
The ethics of testing and developing vaccines
The impact of immunisation in developing and developed societies
How vaccines are proven safe research methods used
The role of statistics in understanding disease
The ABC have recently published a documentary call ‘Cracking COVID‘. A journey in how scientists have cracked COVID in 2021.
Tracking the real-time story of Australia’s scientific response to the pandemic.
As teams of scientists unlock the secrets of the virus, researchers work to build a vaccine, and patients confront symptoms of this new disease.