Health
COVID-19 misinformation bolsters anti-vaccine movement
More parents are questioning the necessity of routine vaccinations for young children. Adults are skipping shots as well, even for vaccines with a long safety record.
Jul 4, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Unverified reports of vaccine side effects aren't the smoking guns portrayed by right-wing media outlets
Chances are you may not be not familiar with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. Co-managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, VAERS was established ...
Aug 26, 2021
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Vaccination
UK vaccine rollout set to begin with queen in line for jab
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine within weeks, reports on Sunday said, as the biggest immunisation programme in UK history begins next week.
Dec 6, 2020
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Vaccination
COVID-19 anti-vaxxers use the same arguments from 135 years ago
As we get closer to an effective vaccine for COVID-19, we should expect to see a renewed push of disinformation and vocal resistance from the anti-vaccination movement. Over the past year, seemingly endless conspiracy theories ...
Oct 5, 2020
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UN: No vaccine to be endorsed before it's safe and effective
The head of the World Health Organization said the U.N. health agency will not recommend any COVID-19 vaccine before it is proved safe and effective, even as Russia and China have started using their experimental vaccines ...
Sep 4, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Swine flu vaccination in pregnant women does not increase risk of autism in offspring
Two recent studies were unable to rule out that H1N1 ("swine flu") vaccination (Pandemrix) and seasonal influenza vaccination given to pregnant women might be associated with autism-spectrum disorder in the offspring. Now, ...
Aug 31, 2020
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Approval of a coronavirus vaccine would be just the beginning: Huge production challenges could cause long delays
The race for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is well underway. It's tempting to assume that once the first vaccine is approved for human use, all the problems of this pandemic will be immediately solved. Unfortunately, that is not exactly ...
Aug 25, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Q&A: Meeting the challenge of vaccination hesitancy
In 2019, the World Health Organization declared vaccine hesitancy one of the top 10 threats to global health. In recent years, worldwide measles outbreaks in communities with low immunization rates have revealed gaps in the ...
Jun 15, 2020
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COVID-19 vaccine not certain: global alliance Gavi
The race is on to produce a vaccine against COVID-19 but it is not certain that one can be found, the head of the global vaccines alliance said Friday.
Apr 24, 2020
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Anti-vaccine movement a 'man-made' health crisis, scientists warn
The anti-vaccination movement is now a global crisis, an international panel of scientists say, and everyone must do more to combat it.
Jul 3, 2019
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