vaccination

  • OPINION: Vaccine rollout was rare pandemic success – but clear problems emerged

    The COVID vaccine rollout is widely seen as a rare pandemic success for the UK government. The UK Health Security Agency has calculated that 123,000 deaths were prevented in the first nine months of the jab being used.  And according to the World Health Organisation, more deaths were prevented through vaccination in the UK than…

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  • U.K. government advisers have recommended against giving a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home residents and people over 80 because data shows that a third shot offers lasting protection against admission to the hospital. For people over 65, protection against hospitalization remains at about 90% three months after the third dose, according to…

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  • A total of 777.046 million people in China have been fully vaccinated, said National Health Commission spokesperson Mi Feng at a press conference on Friday. That’s more than half of the total population.  More than 1.83 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered across China as of Thursday, said Mi. “As of the midnight of…

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