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WorksheetsVaccine Strategy
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 5mins
1. What question do experts raise in the story?
Are more shots needed?
Should changes be made to existing shots?
Should new vaccines be developed?
Experts raise all of these questions.
2. What term does Dr. Kuritzkes use when talking about vaccination and protecting people from mild infection?
Impossible
Simple
Unrealistic
Straightforward
3. Why is it important to make shots even more widely available now?
It will provide T cell protection to more people.
It will cost less money over the long term.
It will stop the coronavirus from evolving.
It will reduce chances for the virus to mutate.
4. What does the story say about the immune system?
The immune system keeps antibody levels high for a long time after a second dose.
T cell levels drop off at about the same rate that antibody levels do.
T cells help prevent serious illness even when antibody levels decline.
The story says all of these about the immune system.
5. In the sentence, "COVID-19 vaccines are saving lives but they cannot stop new versions of coronavirus from appearing", the underlined word refers to:
COVID-19
versions
vaccines
lives
6. In (...) “we may not need to be doing as much fine-tuning of the vaccines every time a new variant comes”, the best definition for the underlined words is:
making several experiments in order to achieve perfection.
making relevant changes in something so it will work properly.
doing a lot of research in order to find the solution to a big problem.
making small adjustments in order to achieve the best performance.
