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If you or your child test positive for COVID, you clearly can’t go to that vaccination or booster appointment you had booked this week. So, when can you go?
A medical student answers questions he gets asked at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic: Efficacy versus real-world effectiveness, immune response and how the mRNA vaccines compare to vaccines already in wide use.
Various companies use different ingredients and different delivery systems in their COVID-19 vaccines. Researchers are investigating whether it’s better for individuals to mix what’s available.
An immunologist explains that you get some protection from the first dose of the mRNA vaccines but you need two to build up strong immunity, particularly to newer coronavirus variants.
Rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has begun. But getting the jab doesn’t mean abandoning masks, distancing and handwashing. Here’s why the current preventive measures must continue post-vaccine.
With reports emerging of vaccine wastage across the world, medical supply chain experts explain why that’s to be expected.
With vaccine shortages looming, experts are debating whether it is important to receive two doses or whether it’s better to give one dose to more people and give a second when the supply is better.
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Paediatrician at the Royal Childrens Hospital and Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne and MCRI, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone (DHEZ), University of Bradford, Professor of Health Service Operations, University of Bradford
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Assistant Professor Supply Chain Management & Social Responsibility, Hanken School of Economics
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Professor, Biology, York University, Canada
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics, York University, Canada
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Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Clinician-Scientist Trainee, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and Faculty of Science, University of Alberta
