History tells us that mass vaccination campaigns are usually messy, while elsewhere, lower-income countries are turning to China, Russia and India for vaccines.
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Australia is set to get the green light to roll out the Pfizer vaccine any day now. There is a complex process behind this.
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.
Massive vaccine distribution efforts take a lot of coordination. The rollout of the Salk polio vaccine in the US in 1955 holds lessons for those delivering COVID-19 shots today.
Too much hope is being pinned on the vaccine alone to get us out of the current pandemic. But 'low-tech' solutions are needed, too.
The shipment of goods to suppliers has become technologically sophisticated. Delays in getting out the COVID-19 vaccine to people show that the breakdowns come down to something more basic.
Australia's expedited plan to start dishing out COVID jabs in mid-late February will call for NASA-like logistical organisation. And ideally, no more clusters of infections to distract frontline workers.
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Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW
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Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
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John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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