Armed conflicts are becoming increasingly complex, protracted and a growing threat to humanitarian access and the delivery of essential health services, according to a new four-paper Series in The Lancet.
The Series exposes the far-reaching effects of modern warfare on women’s and children’s health, and incudes new estimates that armed conflicts affected at least 630 million women and children over 8% of the world’s population in 2017.
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Israel finds single dose gives high resistance
A single injection of the BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine produces a robust antibody response within weeks, according to Israeli data that could help determine whether scarce global supplies can be stretched by delaying second doses.
At the Rambam Healthcare Campus in northern Israel, 91% of the 1,800 doctors and nurses who received the two-dose vaccine showed a major presence of antibodies 21 days after their first injection, before receiving the vaccine. second dose, according to Michael Halberthal, chief director of the hospital. Another 2 percent showed a moderate presence of antibodies.
“If 93 percent had a significant response three weeks after the first injection, that raises a good question, namely that you could use the first injection on more people instead,” said Dr Halberthal.