When asked when they decided to receive the vaccine, 15.5% and 16.0% answered "less than one month ago" and "less than one week ago," respectively; age <40 and female sex were independently associated with these responses. When asked whether they would have preferred to have been vaccinated...
How long does it take for antibodies to develop after the COVID-19 vaccine? Once you receive the vaccine, your body starts developing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus) pretty quickly, Watkins said. But those antibodies build over time. “It’s a linear process,” he said....
“Fully” vaccinated people can do certain activities, but it depends on the vaccine. Doctors explain when to consider yourself fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
To do this, policy-makers need to consider the needs of women, especially those of childbearing age. This may help inform strategies to communicate with them, particularly about vaccine safety and the importance of COVID-19 vaccination. But to truly understand how to reach those on the fence,...
The global effort to find vaccines for COVID-19 has been incredibly successful, with multiple vaccines demonstrating high efficacy in clinical trials less than a year after the disease was discovered. But it will take several years to manufacture and distribute enough vaccine doses to cover the ...
One of the most significant individual contributions that most of us can make to the lives and security of all the members of our community is to get vaccinated against COVID-19, writes Will Cairns — Read on insightplus.mja.com.au/2021/12/why-i-had-a-co
South Dakota health officials are trying to make it easier for you to figure out when you'll be eligible to receive aCOVID-19vaccine. TheState Department of Healthhas unveiled a new online tool that lets you input your circumstances, which will help determine where you fall on the vaccinatio...
the U.S. is not using a digital system to record vaccine status. He said the U.S. is depending on “aflimsypaper card”, and students have told him they knew of others who had used fake vaccination cards. Rebecca Williams also works at UNC. She is a researcher at the school’s Cen...
Millions of American children ages 5 and up are now eligible to receive Pfizer'sCOVID-19 vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced November 2 that it is formallyrecommending use of the vaccinefor the 5- to 11-year-old age group, following a unanimous show of support...
it followed a process that was largely similar to the standard licensing procedure that would be granted to any new vaccine. The agency's first vaccine greenlight came some three weeks after one was OK'd in the United Kingdom—the first country to authorize a rigorously tested COVID-19 shot...