COVID: How many parents will actually vaccinate their kids?
The early data makes a clear case for vaccinating adolescents. But it s also true that humans have an extremely difficult time making a medical choice on another person s behalf and sometimes default to doing nothing.
Parents are likely facing a big choice soon: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate My child is not a lab rat.
The words are from a 25-year-old woman, Susan, and they re in reference to her three-year-old twin girls.
While she speaks to DW, her eyes flicker between them as they begin to meander away first together, then in different directions in a large, open park in Bonn, Germany.
The early data makes a clear case for vaccinating adolescents. But it's also true that humans have an extremely difficult time making a medical choice on another person's behalf and sometimes default to doing nothing.
Two more Russian vaccines: What we do and don t know
Russia has approved three coronavirus vaccines first, Sputnik-V, then EpiVacCorona and CoviVac. But clinical trials for the last two are incomplete.
Russia wants to produce 50 million vaccine sets by May
Russia wants the majority of its citizens to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, by the autumn of 2021. And it appears to be pushing three homegrown vaccines to meet that goal at all costs.
All three of those vaccines have been approved prior to completing large-scale phase 3 clinical trials an internationally recognized scientific standard that aims to ensure the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
EU vaccine export ban must be on the table, says MEP Manfred Weber
Morrison acknowledges greater urgency in Italy
Despite the hold-up, Australia s Prime Minister Scott Morrison was compassionate: In Italy people are dying at the rate of 300 a day. So I can certainly understand the high level of anxiety that would exist in Italy and in many countries across Europe, Morrison told reporters in Sydney.
The government always anticipated that a problem like this might arise, Morrison said, adding: That s why we ve done a number of things, the most significant of which is to ensure that we have our own domestically produced vaccine.
Malaria: Infections halved in children in Ivory Coast using new technology
Malaria is a leading cause of death for children and is most prevalent in some of the world s poorest countries. A new lure-and-kill style device trial shows potential for a major drop in malaria-spreading mosquitoes.
Malaria is a leading cause of death among children worldwide
A new type of malaria control has significantly brought down infection rates among children in the Ivory Coast in western Africa, according to new research published in The Lancet.
The device, developed by Dutch researchers and trialed over two years in combination with the use of window screens and insecticide-coated bed nets, was found to lower the incidence of malaria by around 40% to 50% in children aged between six months and 10 years old.