Otto Yang, MD, is Associate Chief of Infectious Diseases and Professor at UCLA, specializing in T-cell immunology and immune responses to viral infections and organ transplantation. His extensive career includes work in clinical infectious diseases care and laboratory science, focusing on vaccine and immune therapy development for COVID-19, cancer, and transplant rejection.
With so much information—and misinformation—about mRNA vaccines, it’s not always easy to sort out what’s true. Some people worry about the safety of these vaccines,...