The UK will roll out a covid-19 booster vaccine at the beginning of autumn in order to protect the most vulnerable ahead of winter, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced. As part of this, the government's vaccines taskforce has secured an additional 60m doses of...
With the vaccine rollout going so well and daily deaths dwindling to single figures, the challenge now is how to future-proof our shield against the virus - and prevent the need for another lockdown. The Chief Medical Officer has been signalling since the start of the year t...
A new coronavirus vaccine that can will be effective against new variants of Covid-19 should be ready to rollout from the autumn, developer AstraZeneca has said. The drug firm, which has been working with Oxford University to rollout a vaccine at cost price, confirmed it will...
The UK will roll out a covid-19 booster vaccine at the beginning of autumn in order to protect the most vulnerable ahead of winter, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced. As part of this, the government's vaccines taskforce has secured an additional 60m doses ...
This study aimed to estimate the effects of the booster program and alternative vaccination strategies on morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19 in the UK. Method: A Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) model was used to assess the impact of several vaccination strategies on severe ...
The article reports on the announcement by United Kingdom's (UK) Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) that a COVID-19 booster vaccine and flu jabs will be offered to adult people over 50 years old in the autumn of 2022.Practice Nursing...
Moderna's bivalent covid-19 vaccine—which targets both the original version of SARS-CoV-2 and the omicron BA.1 variant—will be rolled out alongside the original Moderna, Pfizer, and Novavax covid-19 vaccines, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has said. NHS England...
NHS England has yet to confirm how and when eligible people will be able to access the booster vaccine, but the UK Health Security Agency has said that it will be offered to those at higher risk of severe illness. ### Vaccines being rolled out in the autumn booster programme The JCVI ...