COVID-19Developing CountriesVaccination campaignsCentral AmericaCOVID-19 is a menace to those who haven't a chance to easily access COVID-19 vaccines everywhere and anytime, especially in developing countries. We want to goSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
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...
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. People aged 65 years and older and adults ...
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...
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...
On Thursday, the health body warned that Africa faces a shortfall of almost 500 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines required to hit its year-end target. "Export bans and vaccine hoarding have a chokehold on vaccine supplies to Africa. As long as rich countries lock COVAX ...
Factbox: UK Approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine - Who Gets It First? More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Biontech's logo is seen through a 3D-printed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken November 10, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on We...
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...
population were vaccinated by then. Tedros made the remarks during a visit to a partly state-owned vaccine producer in South Africa on Saturday. He said the World Trade Organization's intellectual property rights agreement on patent waivers was in place for situations like the ...