Medical decision-making is often based on universal principles of fairness. But what happens when systemic racism means the dice are rigged to begin with?
There’s a case for targeting vaccine rollout on areas where healthy life expectancy is low, such as Blackpool.
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The Conversation is bringing together three experts in human behaviour for an online discussion about how this virus has changed us, and how long the effects might last.
How long will protection last?
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With multiple variants of concern now present in the UK, attention is turning to when updated vaccines for them will be ready.
By early March only one-third of Germany’s stocks of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine had been used – possibly because of misinformation about its effects.
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One year on from when lockdowns began in the west, specialists reflect on how these two fields have responded to the crisis.
Israel has the highest rate of COVID-19 vaccine coverage worldwide, and so has been one of the first countries to report on vaccine effectiveness.
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Perhaps we should rethink how we monitor pregnant women who have COVID.
Proportionally, twice as many white people in eligible categories have received a dose of a COVID vaccine than people from BAME groups.
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