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As COVID-19 vaccines roll out, a debate about whether athletes should be prioritized over more vulnerable populations has emerged.
The African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team recently secured a provisional 270 million vaccine doses for African countries.
Achieving high COVID-19 vaccine uptake among health workers will not only protect these critical staff members, it will also support high levels of uptake among the general public.
Critics of the South African government argue that it has done too little too late to secure vaccines, and that it doesn’t have a proper plan in place for rollout.
A biologist who studies the evolution of diseases explains what’s different about the two new virus strains that have been found recently, and what that means for vaccine effectiveness.
Tuberculosis is a global threat and a public health concern on a scale similar to COVID-19.
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.
Many countries cannot afford to buy existing COVID-19 vaccines, a collective approach is needed.
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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.
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.
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.
Two in five Americans say they don’t want a COVID-19 vaccine, which is a problem. Finding out what Americans do want from a vaccine might help.
With reports emerging of vaccine wastage across the world, medical supply chain experts explain why that’s to be expected.
With many more months of lockdowns, mask mandates and quarantining in our futures, the government needs to get its messaging just right and we all need to manage our expectations appropriately.
Sterilising immunity means that the immune system is able to completely prevent a virus from replicating in your body. Not all vaccines provide this.
Researchers say around 70% of the US needs to get the coronavirus vaccine to stop the pandemic. But questions around the vaccines and regional differences add some uncertainty to that estimate.
China is due to surge ahead, but there is bad news for other developing countries.
So far, the only COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use need to be kept frozen. But there are many places in the world that can’t support a cold supply chain.
The benefits of getting vaccinated far outweigh the risks – here’s why you should get vaccinated against COVID-19 and other diseases.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Professor of Immunology, Vice-Chancellors Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Head of Immunology and Translational Research, Victoria University
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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
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Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Immunology, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer; MD, Victoria University
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
