Understanding vaccine hesitancy has become increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic as governments around the globe have been struggling to convince portions of their populations to participate in vaccination protocols. Here we report on a nationally representative survey of the United Kingdom ...
What is the COVID-19 vaccine and how does it work? Vaccines help us protect ourselves by training our bodies to fight an illness-causing virus. The first COVID-19 vaccines do this by using a molecule called "messenger RNA," or "mRNA." The mRNA teaches cells to create the coronavirus...
Currently, no. There are some national requirements for Covid vaccines, like making sure that healthcare workers and elderly populations get vaccinated first. Other requirements are left up to individual states. In general, the consensus is that there will be enough supply of the vaccine to give...
What is the COVID-19 vaccine and how does it work? Vaccines help us protect ourselves by training our bodies to fight an illness-causing virus. The first COVID-19 vaccines do this by using a molecule called "messenger RNA," or "mRNA." The mRNA teaches cells to create the coronavirus's...
With the news that COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna would be distributed to millions of Americans beginning in mid-December of 2020, the light at the end of this very long tunnel started to shine a little brighter. The Shot in the Arm T
Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious diseases doctor and Professor of Medicine at UCSF says endemicity means bringing it down to a controllable phase. "The end game is really bringing down the virus to low levels where we just live with it." RELATED:Could the COVID-19 pandemic end soon? ...
Australia's current crop of COVID-19 vaccines consists of a shot by American biotechnology company Pfizer, which we import, and the vaccine by British-Swedish multinational AstraZeneca, the bulk of which we manufacture onshore in Melbourne under license.
What is a COVID-19 vaccine passport, and will I need one? "Vaccine passports," orvaccinecertificates, are documents that show you were vaccinated against COVID-19 or recently tested negative for the virus. They could help you get into places such as stadiums or even countries that are look...
To help prevent COVID-19 issues, colleges may require vaccines for students living in residence halls, with some limited exemptions. At the University of Michigan – where a vaccine mandate is in place for those who choose to live on campus – Malani expects around 95%...
Some countries are making tentative plans for when they might start treating COVID-19 as an "endemic" disease, but the World Health Organization and other officials have warned that the world is nowhere close to declaring the pandemic over. A look at what endemic means and the implications for...