Our Immune Response to Vaccines: a Conversation with MSU Immunologist Kathy Hoag

This content was created as part of the Michigan Vaccine Project, a three-year vaccine education effort supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Information was current as of the date of publication.

September 30, 2022

Learn more about how vaccines work and how they impact our body’s immune response as we speak with immunologist and certified medical laboratory scientist Dr. Kathy Hoag from Michigan State University’s Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program. Dr. Hoag discusses how the immune system works, how vaccines help to build immunity, and how our bodies respond to natural infection from viruses like COVID-19.

This webinar was recorded in September 2022.

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