The total number of vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 198 crore, according to health ministry data. Ninety per cent of India’s adult population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Union Health Minister ...
Recommendations for the Use of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine in Children Aged 6 Months–5 Years and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine in Children Aged 6 Months–4 Years Data reviewed with the EtR Framework supported the use ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jaime Sidani, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences; Beth Hoffman, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences, and Maya Ragavan, University of ...
Vaccine uptake constitutes a key barometer as governments lead the communities out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Facts and fake news have apparently influenced vaccination willingness. But how valid is this proposition? Jiebo Luo, a professor ...
mRNA-1273 was authorized for children and adolescents aged 6 months through 17 years of age, administered as two doses given one month apart mRNA-1273 has been administered to millions of children and adolescents over the ...
SciCheck Digest Studies have found that COVID-19 increases the risk for heart complications, and that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the risks for males and females in all age groups. Social media posts, however, have ...
An ambulance rushes through the street. Photo by wsfurlan/Getty Images. “The findings raise concerns regarding vaccine-induced undetected severe cardiovascular side-effects and underscore the already established causal relationship between vaccines and myocarditis, a frequent cause of ...
Social media is defined as “forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (e.g., videos) [1]. ...
Summary box Mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policies have been used around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic to increase vaccination rates. But these policies have provoked considerable social and political resistance, suggesting that they have unintended ...
Based on topline data, three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine met all immunobridging criteria required for Emergency Use Authorization The third 3-µg dose was well-tolerated among 1,678 children under 5 years of age with ...
