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Vaccines against 10 diseases prevented 37 million deaths in low- and middle-income countries in the last 20 years Vaccines against 10 diseases prevented 37 million deaths in low- and middle-income countries in the last 20 years 29 January 2021 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png Share Vaccine programmes in low- and m...

London, United Kingdom – When Ayesha Sharieff, a general practitioner in a south London surgery, administered the first COVID vaccines to her patients earlier this month, she was overjoyed. “It was the best afternoon I’ve spent for a long time,” said Sharieff, who has been a doctor for 20 years. “After all these tough times we’ve been through recently, it was such a pleasure. I wanted to jump on top of my car and honk the horn.” Each day, Sharieff and her team vaccinate up to 300 ...

Originally published on January 11, 2021 3:36 pm Only a vaccine will save America from the COVID -19 pandemic. At least thats the opinion of nearly all public health officials. Obviously, vaccine manufacturers are critical to any vaccine campaign. But theres another group that plays a less obvious but still crucial role in making sure vaccines do what theyre intended: mathematicians. Even if the Biden administration releases all available doses of the two authorized COVID-19 vaccines, for a w...

Octavio Jones/Getty Images toggle caption Octavio Jones/Getty Images Older adults and first responders wait in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine late last month at the Lakes Regional Library in Fort Myers, Fla. Octavio Jones/Getty Images Only a vaccine will save America from the COVID -19 pandemic. At least thats the opinion of nearly all public health officials. Obviously, vaccine manufacturers are critical to any vaccine campaign. But theres another g...

The Government has announced plans to introduce new coronavirus testing requirements for travellers heading to England from abroad.

International travellers arriving in England, including UK nationals, will have to provide proof of a negative test for the CCP virus before boarding.

THE government finally caught up with at least some of the science today as it announced that anyone entering the country would now have to produce a negative Covid-19 test. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that from next week passengers travelling to England from abroad — including British nationals — will have to have been tested within 72 hours of their departure. Similar measures were announced by the Scottish government, with Wales is expected to follow suit. The belated move w...

Vaccines are being approved. Now comes the hard part The swift development of a safe vaccine represents a scientific triumph. Rolling it out at scale and inoculating a critical mass of the population will require no less ingenuity Photo: Victoria Jones/PA Wire/PA Images Soon after Chinese scientists shared their information about the coronavirus genome in January, the race to find a vaccine began. Pharmaceutical companies around the world began developing over 270 different Covid-19 vaccines be...