World Health Organization 2020

Read the websites listed. Answer the questions. Answers must written be per Harvard format, with correctly written citations, written in English format (left to right), and with correct grammar and spelling.

  1. World Health Organization. 2020. Vaccines Explained. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines/explainers
    Click on each of the 12 topics and read them.
  2. Centers For Disease Control. Vaccines for Your Children: Diseases and the Vaccines that Prevent Them. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/index.html and https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/visit/before-during-after-shots.html
  3. Centers for Disease Control. Vaccines for Your Children: Diseases You Almost Forgot About (Thanks to Vaccines). https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/forgot-14-diseases.html
  4. Centers for Disease Control. Vaccine Education and Training for Healthcare Professionals. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ed/index.html
  5. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). 25 January 2022. Understanding How covid 19 Vaccines Work. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/how-they-work.html
  6. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.) Immunization. Vaccine Basics: Vaccine Types. https://www.hhs.gov/immunization/basics/types/index.html
  7. Ministry of Health. 2013. Immunization Schedule. https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/HealthAwareness/EducationalContent/vaccination/Pages/vaccination1.aspx
    Click on the National Immunization Schedule on the website to open the schedule.

Questions:

  1. Vaccines such as the influenza and Covid 19 vaccines cannot give a person the disease (flu or Covid 19). Explain why this statement is true.
  2. What is the difference in how mRNA and Vector Vaccines work to prevent Covid 19 illness?
  3. A mother brings her 14 month old son in for his vaccinations. He receives a measles (rubeola) vaccine. The following day the mother calls back and says that the vaccine gave her son measles. He has a low grade fever (37.5 tympanic), a mild rash, the injection site is slightly erythematous and tender, and he is a little fussier than usual. What should the advanced practice nurse say to the mother? Include all pertinent parent/patient teaching.