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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 middle-income countries have prevented 37 million deaths in the last 20 years alone – 36 million of...

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 patients, currently focusing on elderly people from the area’s diverse urban population as a prior...

Originally published on January 11, 2021 3:36 pm Only a vaccine will save America from the COVID -19 pandemic. At least that's the opinion of nearly all public health officials. Obviously, vaccine manufacturers are critical to any vaccine campaign. But there's another group that plays a less obvious but still crucial role in making sure vaccines do what they're intended: mathematicians. Even if the Biden administration releases all available doses of the two authorized COVID-19 vaccines, for a while at least, supplies will remain limited. How best to use that limited supply is a question ma...

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 that's the opinion of nearly all public health officials. Obviously, vaccine manufacturers are critical to any vaccine campaign. But there's another group that plays a less obvious but still crucial role in making sure vaccines do what they're inte...

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