The United Kingdom administered 47.5 million vaccine doses as of this date, nearly 34 million of which are first shots. The UK is second only to Israel in terms of the proportion of the population who have received the first dose of vaccine, which stands at around 50% of their total pop...
“The rush to create a COVID-19 vaccine may do more harm than good” (Torreele2020). The article lamented the fact that a vaccine may only provide short term protection or may offer only low vaccine effectiveness (less than 50%). The article quotes Phil Krause, then deputy...
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 ...
Surging demand for overseas travel fuels visa application. As of September 2023, China continues to witness a surge in enthusiasm among its residents for traveling abroad. The convergence of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday into an extended eight-day break from September 29 to Oct...
In this study, we aim to understand the likely impact of vaccine hesitancy on the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We modelled the potential impact of vaccine hesitancy on the control of the pandemic and the relaxation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) by combining an ...
The World Health Organization's advisory panel has tentatively scheduled a review of the AstraZeneca vaccine for February 8, after a growing number of European countries limited the use of the AstraZeneca jab on older people, citing a lack of data. The UK government's vaccin...
Despite early setbacks in the vaccine rollout, leading U.S. infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday that he expects Americans to achieve enough collective COVID-19 immunity through vaccinations by autumn 2021. The government's goal is 100 million shots in arms by Marc...
Based on the HA genetic sequence of A/H3N2, we calculated the Hamming distances of each virus strain to the vaccine strain (A/Wisconsin/67/2005) across the five major antigenic sites following the approach from30. We found that A/H3N2 viruses evolved linearly from 2007 to 2023 (Fig. 4a)...
COPENHAGEN, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Denmark plans to offer a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose this autumn to almost 2.5 million people residing in nursing homes or aged over 50, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Wednesday. The new vaccine plan, part of the latest strategy to combat the rising...
FDA Releases Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Guidelines Grant Playter June 22nd 2023 The new guidelines contain formulation recommendations for vaccines launching in autumn 2023. FDA Approves Paxlovid for Treatment of COVID-19 in Adults Jill Murphy June 5th 2023 Paxlovid is not approved or authorized for...