South Africadeterminantsinterventionsreviewvaccine confidencevaccine hesitancyIntroduction: Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines is critical to personal health, protecting vulnerable populations, reopening socio-economic life, and achieving population health and safety through immunity. The primary aim of this review...
In this section, we introduce the components and the trial efficacies of the vaccines. It should be noted that efficacy refers to vaccine performance in controlled trials, whereas effectiveness is drawn from real-world observations. Vaccine efficacies cannot be readily compared because the efficacy can...
Flu vaccines protect against three or four different strains of influenza in one shot. If a vaccine tweak is needed for omicron, authorities will have to decide to whether to make a separate omicron booster or add it to the original vaccine—or maybe even follow the flu model and try anothe...
"People’s ages had no effect on the vaccine’s waning", meaning that the vaccine waned for everyone and not just older people. "...People vaccinated with two shots of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in January and February had a 51% increased chance of contracting the virus in July compare...
The lead researcher on the trial of the Oxford vaccine carried out in South Africa, Professor Shabir Madhi, told CBS News on Monday that more than 13 variants of the coronavirus had been identified in the country since the start of the pandemic. He said the new one, 501.V2, which has ...
A prominent scientist has expressed deep concern that a new vaccine only worked on half of those patients who received it in a trial in South Africa. The Novavax vaccine had nearly 90% success rate in the UK, but only 49,4% efficacy in a smaller test in South Africa. Prof Salim ...
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday jointly launched a vaccine manufacturing campus in Cape Town, legislative capital of South Africa, with a goal to manufacture a billion doses of vaccines "from start to...
As CBS News correspondent Debora Patta reports, South Africa has become the first country to approve the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for use, but it has struggled to keep up with richer nations. Lee McCabe and his family thought they'd done everything possible to protect his parents, and...
While the vaccine is known globally as Sinopharm, it will be referred to as MC Pharma in South Africa as international companies have to use a local company when applying to SAHPRA for authorization of their vaccine. SAHPRA has also registered the Pfizer vaccine shot Comirnaty, which was initi...
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine supplied in a multiple dose vial with a purple cap is authorized for use to provide: • a 2-dose primary series to individuals 12 years of age and older; and • a third primary series dose to individuals 12 years of age and older with certain kind...