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LAHORE: Post-vaccination Covid-19 positive cases have surfaced across the world while there are calls by experts that vaccination should be declared compulsory and sentences or fines should be...
On Dec 29 last year, Hasan Gokal, the medical director of the Covid-19 response team in Harris County, Texas (which includes Houston, the fourth-largest city in the United States by population), was supervising the administration of the Moderna vaccine, mostly to emergency workers. The vaccine comes in vials containing 11 doses. A vial, once opened, expires in six hours and unused vaccine must then be thrown away.
Could COVID ‘vaccine certificates’ lead to discrimination? Al Jazeera English UP NEXT With COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out across the world, countries have begun issuing certificates for people who have received the shots. The move is raising concerns about the potential for discrimination. In Israel, hotels and gyms are open for only those with a “green pass” to show they have fully inoculated, or have recovered from the disease. Some countries, meanwhile, are considering travel bubbles for the vaccinated. So will those who are not vaccinated be left behind as loc...
Thursday 18 February 2021 Since England’s third national lockdown began in January 2021, Jake Hopkins has been taking extra precautions when he goes to work as a customer assistant at a supermarket in Tamworth, Staffordshire. He’s nervous about catching Covid-19 – not so much because of the risk it may pose to his health, but because it would mean he would miss the opportunity to be deliberately infected with the virus as part of a world-first “human challenge” study that got the go-ahead this week. During the first lockdown he wasn’t so bothered. “Obviously I was nervous about ...
Not Recommending AstraZeneca Vaccine for Elderly Risks Vulerable Lives It is only ethical to approve a vaccine if it is safe and effective. Crucially, the reluctance to approve the AstraZeneca vaccine in the elderly is grounded only in concerns about its efficacy. Regulators in Europe are at odds over whether the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine should be given to the elderly. In the UK, the vaccine has been approved for use in adults aged 18 and up, but France, Germany, Sweden and Austria say the vaccine should be prioritised for those under the age of 65. Poland only recommends it for those young...