Tag: Vaccine safety
How do we actually investigate rare COVID-19 vaccine side-effects?
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Investigations are under way to determine whether the deaths of two people in New South Wales who developed blood clots are linked to the...
Data suggest no increased risk of blood clots from the AstraZeneca vaccine. Australia shouldn’t pause its rollout
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Ireland and the Netherlands have temporarily paused their rollouts of the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine, due to concerns about blood clots.
The move follows reports from Norway over...
How do we know the COVID vaccine won’t have long-term side-effects?
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As Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout begins this week, many people still have questions about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, both in the short and...
Why telling stories could be a more powerful way of convincing some people to take a COVID vaccine than just the facts
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Scientists don’t know exactly what percentage of the population will need to get a COVID vaccine to achieve herd immunity. Some diseases, such...
What do we know about the Novavax and Pfizer COVID vaccines that Australia just signed up for?
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The federal government’s announcement of agreements to supply vaccines from Novavax and Pfizer/BioNTech potentially increases the pool of COVID-19 vaccines Australians will be able to access.
These two...
Children may need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 too. Here’s what we need to consider
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An ideal COVID-19 vaccine would not only protect people from becoming ill, it would also stop the virus spreading through the population....