no stone has been left unturned when attempting to combat thecoronavirus pandemic in the UAE. In early December 2020, the COVID-19 vaccine in the UAE became available to residents and citizens across the country, marking a new milestone in the country’s fight against the coronavirus. Find ou...
a policy allowing minors to receive the vaccine without parental consent would use a sliding scale of decision-making authority, granting greater autonomy to minors as they age while also considering the risks and benefits of vaccination. On such a calculus, COVID-19 vaccines offer high benefit...
the US’s policy on the country has also turned. The growing rivalry is exemplified by developments ranging from the trade war before the COVID-19 pandemic to the narrative battles and vaccine race during it [83,84,85,68]. In its ‘Reality check of US allegations against China...
Will I receive the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine? Vaccines are based on availability, and Hartig Drug will administer based on the type of vaccine received. Both vaccines are safe and effective. The FDA, CDC, and ACIP have not declared preference for one vaccine over another. ...
Using a couple of different search techniques in VAERS to try and find cases where people have already received both a COVID-19 vaccine and a flu shot since this recommendation was made, I found several cases where people apparently took the White House's and the CDC's advice (given in ...
SARS-CoV-2 Delta VOC in Scotland: demographics, risk of hospital admission, and vaccine effectiveness. Lancet. 2021;397(10293):2461-2462. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01358-1PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 14. Ong SWX, Chiew CJ, Ang LW, et al. Clinical and virological features...
Recent studies showed that complete vaccination was effective against SARS-CoV-2 even for emerging variants; and infection was significantly lower among vaccinated individuals than non-vaccinated16,17,18,19. In contrast, several studies showed low vaccine efficacy against Delta (B.1.617.2) variant co...
The World Health Organization’s guidance about when to wear a face mask may seem confusing to Americans, who have been advised by the CDC to wear cloth face masks in public to help slow the spread of COVID-19.“If you are healthy,you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care...
1.3. COVID-19 In 2019 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began monitoring the outbreak of a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes a respiratory disease known today as COVID-19 (Tang et al., 2020). Authorities first discovered the virus in Wuhan, China (Boldog et...
UPDATED Biden's Vaccine/Testing Mandates: What Does This Mean for Employers? This post updates the previous blog regarding the "Path Out of the Pandemic: President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan to combat the COVID-19 pandemic more aggressively." ...