A successful rollout isn’t just about the physical points where people can get the vaccinations. It’s also about having a trained workforce to administer them.
Michelle Wise, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
The latest advice is to offer COVID-19 vaccines to women at any stage of pregnancy to protect them from a higher risk of severe disease – and to give their babies an early boost of antibodies.
A police officer stops traffic as people opposed to public health measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 march on Granville Street after the B.C. Grand Freedom Rally, in Vancouver, in Feb. 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Australia’s growing tendency to call in the defence force to deal with crises outside its usual remit is cause for concern. Shouldn’t we be better prepared to respond to disasters?
Our body clock has evolved over millions of years to help us survive.
kanyanat wongsa/ Shutterstock
Annie Curtis, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Our immune system is controlled by our “body clock” – an intricate 24-hour system which controls how cells function.
Little work has been done to understand young people’s willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Above: a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus on May 6.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
As vaccine eligibility is expanded to adolescents and young adults, understanding who might be more likely to be vaccine hesitant, and why, can help inform public health strategies
Navy veteran Faron Smith Jr. reacts as he receives a COVID-19 vaccination at a Veterans Administration pop-up vaccination site on April 17, 2021, in Gardena, Calif.
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
Fiona Russell, The University of Melbourne; John Hart, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and Katherine Gibney, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
The COVID-19 variant responsible for Victoria’s latest outbreak is one of three Indian variant sub-types, which spreads more easily than the original strain. Here’s what we know so far.
The clotting condition has affected one in 88,000 Australians and is less deadly than previously thought.
Vaccinated people are well protected from getting sick, but could they inadvertently transmit the coronavirus?
Noam Galai/Getty Images Entertainment via Getty Images
Each province and district in South Africa has allocated persons responsible for investigating adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination.
A health worker administers an injection to a child below the age of one year during a routine immunisation at a health center in Kampala, Uganda.
Xinhua/Nicholas Kajoba via Getty Images
Offering incentives to encourage good health behavior isn’t new, but it does raise concerns. A behavioral scientist explains how rewarding those taking a shot need not keep ethicists up at night.
Vaccination is one way we can help get kids back to in-person activities.
FG Trade/Getty Images
The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was recently approved for adolescents ages 12-15. Vaccination is essential to protect children from serious illness and quicken return to normal life.
Children wearing masks sit behind screened-in cubicles in their classroom at a Toronto school during the COVID-19 pandemic.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Full population-level protection against COVID-19 will require most adolescents and children to be vaccinated. There are ethical arguments for encouraging vaccination uptake through vaccine mandates.
This week’s budget assumes all Australians will have the chance to be fully vaccinated by the end of the year. It’s ambitious but possible.
Vanquishing the enemy? People stand in a quick moving line up at a mass vaccination centre during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mississauga, Ont., on May 10, 2021.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Public officials are telling us simultaneously to move swiftly on vaccination and also to make thoughtful, reasoned choices about which vaccine we get. These messages are confusing and frustrating.
Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand