VaccinationPregnancyMaternal immunisationCOVID-19 vaccinesRespiratory syncytial virushealth communicationNew maternal vaccine introduction may affect pregnant women's information needs and decision-making processes. The number of vaccines available to pregnant women in Australia has doubled with the introduction ...
In Australia we thought we had crushed COVID-19. For a brief period, Australia enjoyed months of living largely free of the virus. While the virus continued to ravage other parts of the world. But then the virus mutated and restrictions returned. Our current response, mass vaccination, offers...
Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil and Health Minister Mark Butler on Sunday announced that, from Wednesday, travelers arriving in Australia will no longer have to complete a Digital Passenger Declaration (DPD) to declare vaccination status. It marks an end to all Australia's international travel ...
"We have a first dose national vaccination rate of 95.2 percent, and we know that some people have waited for Novavax, and although we have encouraged everyone to proceed, we recognize that that's a fact. So hopefully this will encourage those people in the less than last 5 percent to c...
Sydney Cases Dip as Australia Debates COVID-19 Reopening Plans More Reuters FILE PHOTO: People wait in line outside a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination clinic in the Bankstown suburb during a lockdown to curb an outbreak of cases in Sydney, Australia, August 25, 2021. ...
United States’ COVID-19 vaccination roll-out and related policies have contained missed opportunities, errors, run counter to evidence-based medicine, and revealed limitations in the judgment of public policymakers. How can a single intervention simultaneously represent one of our greatest pandemic succ...
It should be noted that even though the relative importance scores for all the attributes sum to 100%, it does not imply that the five attributes considered in the study fully account for parents' vaccination decision in reality. Rather, the relative importance reflects the relative impact of ...
The requirement was introduced late in 2021 when Australia's borders were opened to residents and citizens. "Given that the vaccination requirements remain and the masking requirements, the medical advice is that (the test) would no longer be required," Hunt said. ...
Even if a country in this group were to open its border, the imported cases would still constitute only a small proportion of the overall (internal and imported) cases. The epidemic in these countries is most effectively controlled by extensive vaccination of the population as well as large-...
Hunt on Thursday said he is expecting Australia's peak vaccine advisory body, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), to expand its definition of vaccination against COVID-19 to three doses within weeks. "But my expectation is that we're likely to have from ATAGI ov...