WHO issues validation for a COVID-19 vaccine
WHO issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine and emphasizes need for equitable global access: The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed...
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What is the scale of COVID-19 vaccine scepticism?
COVID-19 Series: What is the scale of vaccine scepticism? - Episode 56 Webinar: Date and time: Thu 7 Jan 2021 from 12:30pm to 1:15pm Register...
Lasting Power of Attorney and the Covid vaccine
Do I have the right to refuse the Covid vaccine on behalf of a relative? The requirement for an Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) to...
Update on The University of Queensland COVID-19 vaccine
Friday, 11th December, 2020: The University of Queensland (UQ) and CSL today announce that the Phase 1 trial of the UQ-CSL v451 COVID-19 vaccine has shown that...
Less than 50% willing to get a COVID-19 vaccine
Less than half of people currently willing to get a COVID-19 vaccine, international survey suggests: A new report on the public’s attitudes towards coronavirus vaccines has...
Safety paramount to COVID-19 vaccine programme
Comment from Royal Pharmaceutical Society: safety of staff and patients paramount to the COVID-19 vaccine programme: Following the news that the Medicines and Healthcare products...
Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine is effective
The interim phase III trial results are in: Oxford University's COVID-19 vaccine is effective. Find out more about this story: ttps://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-23-oxford-university-breakthrough-global-covid-19-vaccine Transcript The Oxford Covid-19...
Fiji’s vaccine program reduces childhood death and illness: study
Fiji’s national vaccine program against pneumonia, a serious lung condition, and rotavirus, a common disease which causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting, has reduced illness and...
Wealthy countries hoarding breakthrough vaccines
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Wealthy countries already hoarding breakthrough vaccines Responding to the announcement by Pfizer-BioNTech that the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing has been found to...
COVID-19 Series: Vaccines and living with the virus – Episode 50
This episode of the COVID-19 Series will feature an interview with Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. In an interview with Professor Sir Simon Wessely,...
