Coming into this presentation, I didn’t really have a great idea of who John Snow was or what he did. Coming out of the presentation, I have a great baseline of his work and how he contributed to society, so I would say that this was a great presentation in that way. When it comes to all of the other information presented, regarding various research methods and how modern geography contributes to the study of vaccines, I had a great time learning about them and they were very thoroughly presented. My favorite part of the entire presentation was learning about the idea of “herd immunity” and how it impacts current research so much. Overall, I thought Dr. Root did an amazing job conveying her work and information, and she was able to make it interesting the entire time.
If you want to hear more about herd immunity and the controversy over vaccines, check out this documentary, Brenden.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/vaccines/transcript/
It gives a lot of interesting background and presents some of the dangers of not accepting the idea of herd immunity or vaccination.