Andrew Pollard, University of Oxford Usually, World Immunisation Week is a chance for those of us who research vaccines to reinforce the message about their importance in saving lives. From whooping...
The first shipment of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, landed in South Africa on 1 February. This was a moment of brilliant hope. However, a shameful...
As the Covid-19 vaccine rollout gets underway here in the hard-hit US, chaos continues to reign. Down in go-it-alone Texas - yes, that state with its own standalone, cheap energy-providing electrical...
Some administrations hide or minimize problems and divert the public's attention in a direction they prefer. But measures taken to gain public sympathy and distract from ineffective / late responses...
Access to Covid-19 vaccines in Latin America will be more limited than in other parts of the world, at least initially. According to a report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), coverage of...
By Winston Morgan, University of East London Addressing vaccine hesitancy among Black communities is as complex as fighting the pandemic. That’s because just as the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolves, so...
Every January, many people make resolutions to start the year with more energy, but in many cases, these are forgotten quite quickly. 2021 is probably the year people have placed the most hope in, so...
The pandemic has caused a re-evaluation of many aspects of society. Most people's routines changed and they had to restructure their lives, adapting to situations that were unthinkable in the past,...
By Maria Valenstain & Alex Apostolou Kolmaniotis Travelling home for Christmas from UK universities is set to be an unprecedented challenge this year for international students. In the academic...
Finally, we have good news in the last days of 2020. Nearly a year after the outbreak of the coronavirus, scientists have stated they made vaccines against Covid-19. To date, more than 58 million...