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Fair global agreements, home-grown vaccines and sharing extra doses with poorer nations are all needed if we're to ever emerge from this pandemic.
Though COVID-19 has killed Black Americans at nearly twice the rate as white Americans, Black people are the least likely racial group to say they're eager to get the vaccine.
A waiver may not allow all developing countries to secure medicines and other anti-COVID technologies in a timely way.
In 1959, three armed men broke into the University of Montréal and stole the whole supply of polio vaccine — 75,000 vials valued at $50,000. What have we learned from this event?
Plus new research on why China is closing down coal-fired power stations. Listen to episode 3 of The Conversation Weekly.
The clock starts ticking once the vaccine leaves the freezer. Here's what to expect.
The Pfizer vaccine rolls out to high-risk people in Australia from next week. And many of these front-line workers will be women. Here's what we know so far.
The world's most advanced economies will incur half the total costs associated with a failure to vaccinate poorer nations, which could exceed $4 trillion if only half their citizens are inoculated.
We can help vaccines keep up with the mutating coronavirus by doubling down on preventive measures.
Women, particularly those of childbearing age, were more likely to be unsure about getting vaccinated.
Vaccine selfies are just the tip of the iceberg of doctor frustration over Canada's fragmented vaccine rollout.
Researchers are already working to improve the current crop of mRNA vaccines. Hopefully this will help them become more practical and affordable for the entire world, not just first-world countries.
The approval of the first of four COVID-19 vaccines marks the first step in New Zealand's plans for a Pacific-wide immunisation rollout.
The conflict shows just how high the political stakes are on all sides.
With slow vaccine distribution and manufacturing, some people won't get the second dose on time. But does it matter?
Historically, we immunized children against diseases like polio that were a clear danger to them, but COVID-19 is usually mild in children. However, herd immunity is unlikely without vaccinating kids.
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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.
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.
Now that two COVID vaccines have been authorized by the FDA, questions arise. Today, a physician from Indiana University School of Medicine answers five reader questions.
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Emergency Physician at University Health Network, Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer in Viral Immunology, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Immunology, RMIT University
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Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Western Australia
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Peneliti, Badan Kebijakan Fiskal, Kementerian Keuangan RI
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PhD Candidate and Pharmacist, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Translational Respiratory Medicine, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Professor in Marketing and the Director of the Centre for Human and Cultural Values, University of Western Australia
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Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute
