Only seven infections occurred among 4, 167 people who were at least 15 days out from getting their second dose of vaccine. The vaccines prevented health care workers in the study from becoming serious ill, says study coauthor Francesca Torriani, a professor at the University of California, ...
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CDC Recommends Pediatric COVID Vaccine for Children 5-11 Years Old by AllOnGeorgia November 3, 2021 Following the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) and...
The idea that we were “rushing a vaccine” was common in media coverage throughout 2020. On Sept 4, 2020, Donald Trump promised to, “produce a vaccine before the end of the year, or maybe even sooner” (Reich and Masket2020). Trump added, “Nobody thought it could be done this f...
So I strongly support the childhood COVIDvaccine, and not just as a virologist, but as a parent too. I am among the unlucky few to experience a child becoming seriously unwell, my son being admitted to hospital at just 14 weeks withbacterial meningitis. My wife somehow endured staying with...
Less than a year ago, little was known about the mysterious virus that was sickening dozens inChinaand spreading rapidly unbeknownst to people across the globe. At the time, 35-year-old Hamilton Bennett, the senior director of vaccine access and partnerships at Moderna, a small, then-relatively...
167 people who were at least 15 days out from getting their second dose of vaccine.The vaccines prevented health care workers in the study from becoming serious ill,says study coauthor Francesca Torriani,a professor at the...
Sinopharm's vaccine is safe and effective for people aged 3 to 17, Zhang Yuntao, vice president of Sinopharm CNBG, told CGTN. The company started the phase I and II clinical trials for juveniles between 3 and 17 years old in central China's Henan Province in July 2...
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy threatens pandemic control efforts. We evaluated vaccine hesitancy in the US by employment status and occupation category during the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. US adults 18-64years completed an online COVID-19 survey 3,179,174 times from January 6-May 19, 2021. Data...
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