Advisory groups around the world release guidance to prioritize healthcare workers and others. A nurse inoculates a volunteer with Russia's new coronavirus vaccine A nurse inoculates a volunteer with Russia's new coronavirus vaccinedoi:10.1038/d41586-020-02684-9Nidhi Subbaraman...
(HealthDay)—One way to help protect newborns from COVID-19 is for women to get their COVID vaccine while pregnant.
Even if you have had COVID-19 previously or have been vaccinated, it is important to get the updated COVID-19 vaccine because the immunity from previous vaccines and infections decreases over time. Another benefit has to do with immune innovation—when the virus changes, it can escape the an...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose a threat to global public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) last month called for the momentum for vaccination to be maintained to better cover high-priority groups. The vaccine uptake in low- and middle-income countries...
Speaking at the World Health Organization's executive board meeting on October 6, the agency's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "there is hope" that a vaccine against COVID-19 may be ready by the end of this year. During his closing remarks, Tedros called for solidarity an...
A citation read prior to the presentation of Lindsay's award noted that at the height of the pandemic, she directed a team of nurses as they worked "tirelessly to save patients while risking their own lives." When the COVID-19 vaccine was authorized, Lindsay...
Doing the Touchy Math on Who Should Get a COVID Vaccine First Mathematicians model pandemic scenarios by plugging thorny ethical and logistical issues into calculations ByJill Neimark&Undark Josep GutierrezGetty Images If the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics, as Galileo...
Who Needs The COVID-19 Vaccine?doi:10.2139/ssrn.3746101VaccinationVaccinesHealth careCOVID-19In recent days, we have a big debate about who needs the COVID-19 vaccine among different sectors and social groups. We try to evaluate the precise amount of COSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
Here are the current groups that are eligible to received booster shots if they received their Pfizer covid vaccination over six months ago. According to the story atNews 10,these are the groups that are eligible to receive the vaccine booster now. ...
Anyone who gets a COVID-19 vaccine can sign up for v-safehere. Correction April 7, 1:20PM ET:V-safedoescollect severity information, though this wasn’t reported in theJAMAstudy. An earlier version of this story erroneously said that v-safe did not collect this information. We regret th...