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Even with a vaccine, we need to adjust our mindset to playing the COVID-19 long game

 Picture: Dean Lewins/AAP   Incredibly, a whole year has passed since the first emergence of COVID-19. What looked like a temporary inconvenience at first is turning...

We modelled how a COVID vaccine roll-out would work. Here’s what we found

Image: Shuttlestock How well we distribute and administer a COVID-19 vaccine will have massive health, social and economic ramifications. So attention is turning to...

You may be able to buy a COVID vaccine ahead of the government rollout. But jumping the queue comes at a price

Image: Shuttlestock As the world continues to battle COVID-19, the prospect of a vaccine gives us hope of returning to some kind of “normal” in the...

Why we should prioritise older people when we get a COVID vaccine

Shuttlestock While we wait for further results from phase 3 trials, it’s clear that supply of any potential COVID vaccine would initially be limited. Local authorities...

90% efficacy for Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is striking. But we need to wait for the full data

University of Maryland School of Medicine/AP/AAP German biotech company BioNTech and US pharmaceutical Pfizer announced on Monday promising early results from their phase 3...

What do we know about the Novavax and Pfizer COVID vaccines that Australia just signed up for?

Shutterstock 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

Image: Shuttlestock An ideal COVID-19 vaccine would not only protect people from becoming ill, it would also stop the virus spreading through the population....

Vaccine refusers are health literate and believe they’re pro-science. But this just reinforces their view

Picture: Neil Hall/EPA/AAP Australians belonging to the vaccine refusal movement consider themselves a science advocacy group, according to a study published yesterday. My colleagues and I...

Halting the Oxford vaccine trial doesn’t mean it’s not safe – it shows they’re following the right process

Image: Shuttlestock Only days after the federal government announced a A$1.7 billion vaccine deal to roll out COVID-19 vaccines to Australians in 2021, one...

Oxford scientists: these are final steps we’re taking to get our coronavirus vaccine approved

A researcher working on the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in Buenos Aires. EPA-EFE Of the hundreds of potential COVID-19 vaccines in development, six are in...
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