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.
By mid-January, only about a quarter of the COVID-19 vaccines distributed for U.S. nursing homes through the federal program had reached people’s arms.
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There is talk of delay, but the Scottish parliament has been working since last year to make sure this vote can be held safely.
COVAX aims to accelerate the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines and guarantee access to all countries.
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It’s unlikely South Africa will have a substantial number of vaccines until the second half of this year. Most of the vaccines produced in Europe or America have been bought by other countries.
Nurses in the isolation unit at Tygerberg Hospital in the Western Cape.
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Creating a space where people feel safe to voice opinions, make mistakes and risk ridicule when offering an idea can have a significant effect on teams.
Staff help a patient off the ambulance outside the hospital in Wuhan, China, January 2020.
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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.
Jean McCarthy helps a first-grade student at South Boston Catholic Academy on Sept. 10, 2020.
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When a community reopens its schools and COVID-19 rates increase, other factors – not the reopening of schools – may still be to blame, new research finds.
A woman reacts after receiving the vaccine outside the Ashton Gate stadium in Bristol, which has become a COVID-19 vaccination centre.
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In our first weekly update on COVID vaccines, we consider how roll-out plans are being tweaked and when it’s likely we’ll start to see vaccines having an impact.
Intensive care staff have faced, and continue to face, high mortality rates among their patients.
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The peer-review process is an essential part to ensure the quality of scientific research, but the pandemic-driven demand for information means that research is publicized before it has been reviewed.
Universities can expect at least a A$3 billion reduction in international student revenue this year compared to 2019.
A pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong holds a photo of Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist sentenced to four years in China for her reporting on the Wuhan COVID outbreak.
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The stakes are high for China as WHO teams arrive to investigate the origins of the coronavirus. Beijing has presented a success story to the world — and will not accept any criticism.
London’s Piccadilly Circus falls silent. April 2020.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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