Date: 3/9/2021, 10:00 am—11:30 am
County: -Training Offerings
Location: DISTANCE LEARNING
Sponsor: Alternative Family Services (AFS)
Phone: (916) 254-5200
Website: http://www.afs4kids.org/
Dr. Thompson will provide information about the Covid-19 Virus and discuss how vaccination combats illness. She will deliver a clear understanding of how COVID-19 vaccines work and how it helps to look at how our bodies fight illness. She will review how germs, such as the virus that causes COVID-19, invade human bodies, how they attack and multiply. This invasion, called an infection, is what causes illness and how the immune system uses several tools to fight infection.
Dr. Thompson will discuss how vaccines help people develop immunity to a virus or other germ. A vaccine introduces a less harmful part of that germ, or something created to look or behave like, it into a person’s body. The body’s immune system develops antibodies that fight that particular germ and keep the person from getting sick from it. Later, if the person encounters that germ again, their immune system can “recognize” it and “remember” how to fight it off.