Tag: Vaccines
90% efficacy for Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is striking. But we need to wait for the full data
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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?
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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.
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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....
Vaccine refusers are health literate and believe they’re pro-science. But this just reinforces their view
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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
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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
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of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in Buenos Aires. EPA-EFE
Of the hundreds of potential COVID-19 vaccines in development, six are in...