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Older Canadians say they're more willing to get the flu shot in the wake of COVID-19
The pandemic has increased older adults' willingness to receive the flu shot, new research shows.
May 26, 2021
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Study shows sharp decrease in Texas childhood vaccination rates during pandemic
Despite expert recommendations that children continue to get regularly scheduled vaccines during the pandemic, vaccination rates have decreased in several states.
May 19, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
World could have prevented COVID catastrophe: pandemic panel
The catastrophic scale of the COVID-19 pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded Wednesday, but a "toxic cocktail" of dithering and poor coordination meant the warning signs went unheeded.
May 12, 2021
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Experts blast early pandemic failures as India deaths top 250,000
An expert panel on Wednesday blamed bad coordination as well as dithering by national governments and international organisations for the failure to tackle COVID-19 before it became a full-blown pandemic, as India's death ...
May 12, 2021
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Global vaccine push to save 50 mn lives by 2030: WHO
The WHO and partners called Monday for action to boost vaccination against measles and other diseases worldwide after the pandemic severely disrupted access to routine jabs.
Apr 26, 2021
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Medical economics
COVID-19 vaccine development built on $17 billion in NIH funding for vaccine technologies
The unprecedented development of COVID-19 vaccines less than a year after discovery of this virus was enabled by more than $17 billion of research on vaccine technologies funded by the NIH prior to the pandemic, according ...
Apr 22, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Combating vaccine resistance: Modern questions with a long history
With nearly a quarter of the U.S. population vaccinated and vaccines continuing to roll out across the country, Americans are eagerly anticipating an end to the coronavirus pandemic. For insights about what the end of the ...
Apr 14, 2021
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Vaccines alone may not be enough to end pandemic: study
Even as vaccines are becoming more readily available in the U.S., protecting against the asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic spread of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19 is key to ending the pandemic, say two Georgetown ...
Mar 18, 2021
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Brazil orders 100 million doses of Pfizer vaccine
Brazil has ordered 100 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and another 38 million of Johnson & Johnson's, the health minister said Monday, seeking to accelerate the hard-hit country's lagging immunization ...
Mar 15, 2021
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Doctor communication key to pandemic vaccine adoption
People who talk with their doctors are more likely to get vaccinated during a pandemic, according to a study of evidence collected during the "swine flu," the last pandemic to hit the U.S. before COVID-19.
Mar 15, 2021
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