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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...
In response to the newspaper report, he tweeted on Friday: "The key words are 'precautionary basis' and 'could'. The principle is that we should act on the basis that this could be the only batch we receive for some time. We are all hoping and are very confident ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use and said that it will be rolled out from early next week. The head of the medicines regulator, June Raine, said no corners had be...
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...
The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations said Tuesday that about 1.5 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses are now being produced every month, and cited projections that a total of 12 billion will have been produced by year-end. Dr. Bruce Aylward, a top ...
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...
Universal or selective boosters: Who should get a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine? The scientific community does not agree on booster doses in developed countries, while some nations have failed to vaccinate even half of their population. ...
“As the fourth year of the pandemic begins, vaccine booster doses have been shown to restore or enhance protection against infection, symptomatic disease and severe disease, beyond that originally afforded by the primary series,” the authors wrote in the report....
COVID-19 vaccination development and delivery has been "quite extraordinary," says the World Health Organization's public health physician Margaret Harris, who pointed to the big strides made in understanding the virus in such a short amount of time. The numbers are gr...