Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID-19 risks explained with new tool

A calculator to help people understand their risk factors for COVID-19 infection and vaccination has been launched by the Immunization Coalition in collaboration with Australian researchers.

Gerontology & Geriatrics

Vaccine effective for elderly in Brazil facing COVID-19 Gamma variant

The AstraZeneca vaccine, which is being widely used in Brazil and elsewhere in response to an epidemic wave of the SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant, affords significant protection to the elderly when the vaccine's full two-dose schedule ...

Vaccination

AstraZeneca says Covid vaccine sales top $1.0 bn

British pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca said Thursday that its COVID jab generated $1.2 billion (1.0 billion euros) in sales in the first half of the year as global vaccination programmes accelerated.

Vaccination

Research results on mix-and-match vaccinations published

Considerable international interest was generated at the beginning of June when Martina Sester, Professor of Immunology at Saarland University, published a preprint of her research into mixing different types of COVID-19 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Australian city Melbourne ends 5th COVID-19 lockdown

Australia's second-most populous city Melbourne will end its fifth lockdown on Tuesday with the Victoria state government declaring it had beaten an outbreak of the highly contagious COVID-19 delta variant for a second time.

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