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 ...
Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at UKHSA, said: “Widening the eligibility for the flu vaccine will help reduce the number of people getting seriously ill and ease pressures on the NHS, particularly during the busy winter period.
Residents in Beijing and various other Chinese cities can now receive China’s inaugural Covid-19 vaccine designed to combat four different strains of the virus. This move comes as China accelerates its vaccination campaign to address a surging wave of infections. The vaccine, named SCTV01E, i...
Article Open access 13 September 2024 Introduction SARS-CoV-2 vaccination prevented 14.4 million deaths from COVID-19 worldwide in the first year of the pandemic1. In England, which entered its third COVID-19 vaccine season in autumn 20232, around 90% of people aged ≥12 years have been va...
ZURICH--First indications of the effectiveness of a potential vaccine against coronavirus may be available in the autumn, the head of the GAVI vaccine alliance told a Swiss newspaper, forecasting a long road from there to broad availability.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden is recommending a fifth COVID-19 vaccine dose for people with an increased risk of becoming seriously ill, including pregnant women and anyone aged 65 and over, authorities said Tuesday, adding that the country must "be prepared
In the eligibility process, the title and the abstract of the articles were examined to ensure its relevancy to the SLR and in this process a total of 120 articles were excluded and only 58 articles were processed in the next stage. Appraisal of the quality The study ensured the rigor of ...
AstraZeneca said Thursday it expects to have a new version of its COVID-19 vaccine ready for use by this autumn as drugmakers respond to concerns about emerging variants of the disease that may be more transmissible or resistant to existing vaccines. ...
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...
The impact of behaviourally informed messaging nudges on vaccine uptake has demonstrated the importance of this approach, predominantly through invoking a sense of ownership. A megastudy [17] in autumn 2020 tested the impact of 19 different text message strategies on the uptake of the seasonal flu...