Michelle Grattan interviews immunologist and Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty about controlling the coronavirus pandemic, and the prospects of developing a vaccine.
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Initiatives to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 are under way. But how far away are they?
We urgently need a vaccine for COVID-19 but exposing humans to a vaccine candidate that hasn’t undergone the usual safety assessments is risky.
Getting vaccinated against the flu, washing your hands and social distancing are three ways you can help reduce the impact of both the flu and coronavirus.
Without a coronavirus vaccine, a herd immunity strategy would simply lead to thousands of unnecessary deaths.
Inspired by amber and hard candy, researchers figured out a new, needle-free, shelf-stable way to preserve vaccines, making them easier to ship and administer around the world.
Scientists are pursuing several different avenues to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, but the process could take years.
Researchers around the world are working together to control the coronavirus outbreak, now known as COVID-19. This is what’s behind the global effort to develop a vaccine.
The flu shot is a bargain – and people are more likely to get it if they know that.
Following the success of the cervical cancer vaccine, new work on links between viruses and cancers raises promising possibilities.
A sense of wellbeing can have an important affect on parents’ decisions when it comes to health care.
One of the dangers of the new coronavirus is that there is no treatment – and no vaccine. But researchers had already been at work on vaccines for close-related viruses.
Measles infection can be easily managed with prompt health care and symptom management. But without care, mild symptoms can turn into life threatening secondary infections or long-term effects.
There are more effective ways to give the tuberculosis vaccine.
Smallpox is the only disease to be eradicated through sustained human effort. Many of these volunteers were women who defied social norms to save lives in India.
Responding to someone who questions vaccination can be difficult. Before you react, it pays to assess the situation because weighing in can do more harm than good.
You no longer have to go to your GP to get your flu shot or catch up on vaccinations you missed earlier in life or have waning immunity to. But they’re unlikely to be free.
Rwanda’s government has taken concerted, deliberate steps over the past 25 years to build a strong health system.
We need to investigate the overall health effects of vaccines.
Anti-vaccine info online might have foreign roots and political aims.
Top contributors
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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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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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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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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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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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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
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Professor of Immunology, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer; MD, Victoria University
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
