Compared with the general population, the rate of HCWs full vaccination was 3.5 times higher, in particular for low income countries (RR = 5.9). Stratified analysis showed that beyond income group, the availability of vaccine doses was a critical factor of HCWs vaccination coverage with ...
23 vaccines had advanced to Stage 3 clinical trials1and more than a dozen had been approved in multiple countries2. The BNT162b vaccine from Pfizer–BioNTech, for example, has been approved in about 90 countries, while the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine from Oxford–AstraZeneca...
Worldwide, more than 1.98 billion COVID-19 single vaccine doses have been administered, according toOur World in Data, but that does not account for the two doses required in many cases nor does it always indicate where doses have been administered. With more t...
Addressing Inequality in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: A Snapshot from Clinical Symptoms to Vaccine Distributiondoi:10.3390/covid4020014AFRICACOVID-19 pandemicPUBLIC healthIMMUNOPATHOLOGYCLINICAL trialsOn 30 January 2020, WHO declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of global ...
Africa ranks at the bottom of fully-vaccinated regions, averaging at about 19% in comparison to 69% of the worldwide population (Africa CDC, 2022). The factors leading to lower vaccination rates across the continent are complex (Adepoju, 2021). Although “vaccine nationalism” (stockpiling by...
The UN secretary-general has been in touch with the World Health Organization, which is in the lead on this issue, said the spokesman. "We want to make sure that the vaccine does not exacerbate the issues of inequality when it actually arrives and that it is shared for the benefit of al...
The UN secretary-general has been in touch with the World Health Organization, which is in the lead on this issue, said the spokesman. "We want to make sure that the vaccine does not exacerbate the issues of inequality when it actually arrives and that it is shared for the benefit of al...
for which there is presently no effective treatment. The resulting pandemic is having profound and likely long-lasting effects on communities, economies and individuals’ lived experiences. Here, we highlight research published across this journal that reflects in some way on this crisis from humanitie...
“help end the pandemic” (national 23.4%, metropolitan areas 19.7–25.5%). More than a third of the respondents who had already received the vaccine said they encountered difficulties in making an appointment. The top reasons given were lack of proximity of available sites, or not knowing how...
Since its emergence in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant increase in deaths worldwide. This article presents a detailed analysis of the mortality burden of the COVID-19 pandemic across 569 regions in 25 European countries. We produce age and sex-specific excess...