The best approach for protecting everyone’s health will require us to provide different vaccines to different people according to need and availability.
- Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW
We still don’t know if current vaccines prevent people from transmitting the virus to others. Here’s why that matters in 2021.
A group of 28 vaccine researchers said we might have a vaccine by late-2021, though it could take until well into 2022.
It’s easy to judge people who escape from quarantine as not doing their bit. But if we use some basic principles from behavioural science, we might stop people wanting to escape in the first place.
Church leaders have raised concerns over a COVID-19 vaccine produced using cells derived from aborted foetuses. But the Vatican has already ruled such vaccines ‘morally separate’ from the abortions.
Si la vacuna no protege a los individuos de la infección, los que han sido vacunados podrían creer falsamente que están protegidos.
Développer un vaccin repose sur une méthodologie rigoureuse. Ne pas la respecter expose à un risque d’inefficacité ou à des effets secondaires qui affecteront la santé et la confiance du public.
If the vaccine does not protect individuals from infection, those who have been vaccinated could falsely believe they are protected.
How we perceive personal risk, and how well we comply with public health measures, can change depending on whether we are around people we know or strangers.
Just because someone isn’t wearing a mask doesn’t mean they don’t want to. They might have a disability or medical condition you can’t see that makes wearing a mask difficult or distressing.
The most effective way to improve flu vaccination rates among health workers in high-risk clinical areas and aged care facilities is to make it mandatory.
Most immunisation campaigns continue to primarily focus on infants and children, but almost 4 million Australian adults are not vaccinated against preventable diseases.
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