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...
Due to the global COVID-19 vaccine shortage, the public in many countries may not be able to choose one vaccine over another. People may be unwilling to get vaccinated if the COVID-19 vaccine offered in their country’s vaccination program is not their vaccine of choice. The current CO...
Full COVID-19 vaccination in this study was defined as having completed the last dose in the primary series of a COVID-19 vaccine. Results: We administered the questionnaire to 340 participants, with 75% (255 of 340) being female. The mean age of the participants was 52 years (± 12 ...
Researchers say the findings highlight why full vaccination is vital to controlling the spread of COVID-19. Although vaccines may become less effective over time they still prevent some cases, and in doing so, help to buy time to scale-up other defense measures in the critical few weeks afte...
We characterized functional impairments, quality of life (QoL), and cognition among patients who recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection within 3 months (without Long COVID), after 3 months (Recovered Long COVID), or remained symptomatic (Long COVID). Among 7305 patients identified with previous SA...
negative affect and response costs are negatively related to COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Finally, Perceived probability, subjective norms, response efficacy and self-efficacy are positively related to COVID-19 vaccination intentions; among them, self-efficacy contributes the most, followed by respons...
"New York banished cars during Covid – could its open streets be preserved?" The Guardian | May 5, 2022 As an emergency measure for the pandemic, New York City’s banishment of cars from certain streets saw unexpected space open up for pedestrians, restaurant tables and playing children. ...
In England, by June 2022, over 80% of 5-to-18-year-old children had antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 and the recent pandemic. This likely reflects a combination of widespread (asymptomatic and symptomatic) infection and vaccination. For example, between ...
with sample populations with mean or median prolonged signs or symptoms, or health care utilisation, or follow-up time < 12 weeks from acute COVID-19 symptom onset were excluded to ensure that the samples with persistent COVID-19 symptoms in the finalised studies met the definition of ...
individuals with negative attitudes were 3.14 times more likely to hesitate regarding COVID-19 vaccination (POR = 3.14; 95% CI: 1.23; 8.02; I2 = 95%). A meta-analysis of two studies found that individuals unsure about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine exhibited significantly high...