Talking Shots / en Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor聽Christina Guzzo (Part 3)聽 /news/talking-shots-science-sam-and-u-t-professor-christina-guzzo-part-3 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor&nbsp;Christina Guzzo (Part 3)&nbsp;</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Christopher.Sorensen</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-06-02T10:41:23-04:00" title="Wednesday, June 2, 2021 - 10:41" class="datetime">Wed, 06/02/2021 - 10:41</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-youtube field--type-youtube field--label-hidden field__item"><figure class="youtube-container"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qEBNyKfd3h8?wmode=opaque" width="450" height="315" id="youtube-field-player" class="youtube-field-player" title="Embedded video for Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor&nbsp;Christina Guzzo (Part 3)&nbsp;" aria-label="Embedded video for Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor&nbsp;Christina Guzzo (Part 3)&nbsp;: https://www.youtube.com/embed/qEBNyKfd3h8?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </figure> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/coronavirus" hreflang="en">Coronavirus</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/talking-shots" hreflang="en">Talking Shots</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/utogether" hreflang="en">UTogether</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/u-t-scarborough" hreflang="en">吃瓜爆料 Scarborough</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/vaccines" hreflang="en">Vaccines</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW126639245 BCX0" style="padding:0px"> <p>While countries are racing to vaccinate as much&nbsp;of&nbsp;their population against COVID-19 as possible,&nbsp;new variants of concern are complicating efforts to stem the pandemic.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>In the final installment of a three-part series,&nbsp;<strong>Samantha Yammine</strong>&nbsp;鈥 a neuroscientist, science communicator and University of Toronto alumna otherwise known as 鈥淪cience Sam鈥&nbsp;鈥 asks 吃瓜爆料 researcher&nbsp;<strong>Christina Guzzo</strong>&nbsp;to address the question of the vaccines鈥 efficacy against COVID-19 variants.&nbsp;</p> <p>Guzzo,&nbsp;an assistant professor in the department of biological sciences at 吃瓜爆料 Scarborough, points out that the immune response provided by the vaccines is not 鈥渁ll or nothing.鈥&nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淭here&nbsp;might be a&nbsp;chance that someone who is vaccinated might get infected with one of these variants of concern,鈥&nbsp;Guzzo says. 鈥淗owever, they are still protected.&nbsp;It may be a very mild infection.鈥&nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淎nd in the very few rare cases where someone who is vaccinated&nbsp;did get&nbsp;infected, those people don鈥檛 spread the virus.鈥&nbsp;</p> <p>Yammine also poses a question on everyone鈥檚 minds:&nbsp;When can we return to normal?&nbsp;</p> <p>In response, Guzzo likens&nbsp;preventative measures against COVID-19 to slices of&nbsp;swiss&nbsp;cheese. Each strategy 鈥 from avoiding gatherings to wearing masks 鈥 is going to have holes, she says,&nbsp;but layering the slices atop one another, with&nbsp;vaccines as the 鈥渆nd game,鈥 will&nbsp;make for robust protection against the virus.</p> <h3><a href="/news/talking-shots-science-sam-and-u-t-professor-christina-guzzo-part-1">Watch part one of the video series</a></h3> <h3><a href="/news/talking-shots-science-sam-and-u-t-professor-christina-guzzo-part-2">Watch part two of the video series</a></h3> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:41:23 +0000 Christopher.Sorensen 301359 at Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor聽Christina Guzzo (Part 2) /news/talking-shots-science-sam-and-u-t-professor-christina-guzzo-part-2 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor&nbsp;Christina Guzzo (Part 2)</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Christopher.Sorensen</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-05-28T15:49:15-04:00" title="Friday, May 28, 2021 - 15:49" class="datetime">Fri, 05/28/2021 - 15:49</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-youtube field--type-youtube field--label-hidden field__item"><figure class="youtube-container"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hw9yRNRo8gA?wmode=opaque" width="450" height="315" id="youtube-field-player--2" class="youtube-field-player" title="Embedded video for Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor&nbsp;Christina Guzzo (Part 2)" aria-label="Embedded video for Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor&nbsp;Christina Guzzo (Part 2): https://www.youtube.com/embed/hw9yRNRo8gA?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </figure> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/coronavirus" hreflang="en">Coronavirus</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/talking-shots" hreflang="en">Talking Shots</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/utogether" hreflang="en">UTogether</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/u-t-scarborough" hreflang="en">吃瓜爆料 Scarborough</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/vaccines" hreflang="en">Vaccines</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">Which COVID-19 vaccine should you get?</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">鈥淭he best vaccine to take is the vaccine that will save your life,鈥 says <b>Christina Guzzo</b>, an assistant professor in the department of biological sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough. 鈥淚f you agree that you just want to save your life, then any [approved] vaccine will do that.鈥</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">In the second episode of a three-part series, <b>Samantha Yammine</b> 鈥 a neuroscientist, science communicator and 吃瓜爆料 alumna known as 鈥淪cience Sam鈥 on social media 鈥 talks to Guzzo about 鈥渧accine shopping鈥 and the popular belief that vaccines from certain pharmaceutical companies are better than others.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">Guzzo explains that while clinical trials evaluate the efficacy of vaccines in preventing any symptom of COVID-19, including the slightest sniffle, such measures&nbsp;are&nbsp;far less relevant than the fact that all the currently approved vaccines will prevent severe disease and hospitalization.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">She compares the pandemic to a sinking ship and the vaccines to a floatation device.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">鈥淎re you going to look at that flotation device, think twice about it, analyze how it fits, how it looks, how durable, how long it will last 鈥 or will you simply take the flotation device and save your life?鈥&nbsp;</p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 11px;"><a href="/news/talking-shots-science-sam-and-u-t-professor-christina-guzzo-part-1">Watch Part 1 of the video series</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 28 May 2021 19:49:15 +0000 Christopher.Sorensen 301360 at Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor聽Christina Guzzo (Part 1) /news/talking-shots-science-sam-and-u-t-professor-christina-guzzo-part-1 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor&nbsp;Christina Guzzo (Part 1)</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Christopher.Sorensen</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-05-20T11:33:59-04:00" title="Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 11:33" class="datetime">Thu, 05/20/2021 - 11:33</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-youtube field--type-youtube field--label-hidden field__item"><figure class="youtube-container"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XJJQ520gWu4?wmode=opaque" width="450" height="315" id="youtube-field-player--3" class="youtube-field-player" title="Embedded video for Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor&nbsp;Christina Guzzo (Part 1)" aria-label="Embedded video for Talking Shots with Science Sam and 吃瓜爆料 Professor&nbsp;Christina Guzzo (Part 1): https://www.youtube.com/embed/XJJQ520gWu4?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </figure> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/coronavirus" hreflang="en">Coronavirus</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/talking-shots" hreflang="en">Talking Shots</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/utogether" hreflang="en">UTogether</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/u-t-scarborough" hreflang="en">吃瓜爆料 Scarborough</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/vaccines" hreflang="en">Vaccines</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">Canada has been ramping up its COVID-19 vaccination campaign in recent weeks, with <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canada-s-covid-19-vaccination-rate-likely-to-surpass-u-s-this-week-1.5433604">more than&nbsp;46 per cent of the population having received at least one dose</a>. But hesitancy about vaccine safety persists among some individuals.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">In the first segment of a three-part series, <b>Samantha Yammine </b>鈥 a neuroscientist, science communicator and University of Toronto alumna otherwise known as <a href="https://www.samanthayammine.com/">鈥淪cience Sam鈥 on social media</a>&nbsp;鈥 talks to <b>Christina Guzzo</b>, an assistant professor in the department of biological sciences at 吃瓜爆料 Scarborough, about the risks and benefits of getting the COVID-19 shot.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">Guzzo explains that vaccinated people have far lower rates of reinfection compared to those who contracted COVID-19. The risk of experiencing long-term effects from COVID-19 also far outweigh the chance of experiencing extremely rare complications from the vaccine, she says.</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">鈥淲e don鈥檛 have enough science and data and evidence to understand who might have a long-term effect from COVID-19,鈥 Guzzo says, 鈥渟o vaccination provides an additional benefit where it protects you from ... taking a chance and [saying], 鈥楳ight I be the person who has a neurological impact from a COVID-19 infection?鈥欌</p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px">Guzzo adds that the risks surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine are both low and acceptable, compared&nbsp;to the daily risks we face in the normal course of our lives.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 20 May 2021 15:33:59 +0000 Christopher.Sorensen 301362 at