Your willingness to get a vaccination is tied to your political party. And that may have deadly consequences.
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Before the COVID pandemic, efforts to address the challenge of limited vaccine production on the continent yielded little success.
A team analyzed more than 21 million tweets about COVID-19 vaccines and found that negative sentiments on social media were tied to lower-than-expected vaccination rates in many nations.
The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines put nanomedicine in the spotlight as a potential way to treat diseases like cancer and HIV. While the field isn’t there yet, better design could help fulfill its promise.
The latest report from the WHO and Unicef found cases have increased nearly 80% worldwide.
Existing coronavirus vaccines are not as effective against newer variants of the virus. Two vaccine experts explain how new vaccines currently in development will likely offer better protection.
Research suggests that too-frequent immunizations may lead to a phenomenon called “immune exhaustion.”
Far from a mild disease, the flu can cause serious illness and death, particularly among children and older age groups. The flu vaccine isn’t perfect, but it’s the best way to protect yourself.
Many COVID-19 vaccination campaigns encourage doctors to serve as a trusted source of vaccine information. But certain vaccine-hesitant providers may stymie these efforts.
Moderna will ask the FDA to allow emergency use for its vaccine in children as young as 6 months, a step many parents have been anticipating.
A pediatrician recommends helping your child cope with getting vaccines by employing “The Three P’s” – Preparation, Proximity and Praise.
More can be done to prioritise protection against highly transmittable and serious diseases, such as polio and measles.
Flu vaccines will soon be available. And this year, you can get your COVID shot at the same time.
Cuba is acting on the scientific fact that humanity will be safest when all who can be vaccinated are vaccinated. It is following the science and earning its trusted reputation.
An ethicist argues that choices made by celebrities could impose unjustified risk of harm on others.
Until now, access to the vaccines has been limited. But that’s expected to change.
Instead of focusing on new variant-specific vaccines, the emphasis should be on deploying existing vaccines as fast as possible to as many people.
Calculating your risk of death or hospitalization if you are infected with the coronavirus requires good data – notably, the total number of infections in the US. Unfortunately, that data is fuzzy.
An expert weighs in on how colleges can lower their chances of being hit by surges of COVID-19 cases after spring break 2022.
Vaccine hesitancy is often met with one of two responses: Ridicule, or factual information. Both assume a failure of reason, but human behaviour is more complex than reason, so both responses fail.
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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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Project Coordinator & Staff Scientist, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Immunology and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research Partnerships, Victoria University
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Research Fellow, Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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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, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
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Associate Professor of Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Senior Lecturer; MD, Victoria University
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Professor of Immunology, RMIT University
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
