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SAFE AND EFFECTIVE? LET’S BE OBJECTIVE.
These days, there is a lot of misinformation circulating about vaccines. In part 1 of our COVID-19 vaccines miniseries, we learned about your body’s immune response to vaccines, how each type of COVID-19 vaccine works, and what it means to be approved by the FDA. Here, in part 2, we’ll break down the numbers - what does it mean to be 95% effective? Is one vaccine better than the others? Are COVID-19 vaccines actually safe? What is my risk of side effects?
LINGUISTIC WHODUNITS
We can use mathematical and computational techniques to analyze texts with unknown authorship to see if we can determine who wrote them. I present two simple examples of these techniques and use them to answer questions about the writings of William Shakespeare.