Coronavirus: How do you vaccinate the world?

Coronavirus: How do you vaccinate the world?

What happens once a coronavirus vaccine is approved? Kalipso Chalkidou, director of global health policy at the Center for Global Development and Nicole Hassoun, an ethicist at Binghamton University in the US, discuss five challenges we’ll need to overcome to vaccinate billions of people around the world. Hear more from Prof Chalkidou on BBC Health … Read more

Pharmacists in All States Can Vaccinate Kids

Pharmacists in All States Can Vaccinate Kids

By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Aug. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Children can now be vaccinated by pharmacists in all 50 states as the U.S. government seeks to prevent a decline in routine vaccinations during the coronavirus pandemic. While 28 states already allowed pharmacists to vaccinate children, the directive announced Wednesday by the U.S. … Read more

How will the world vaccinate seven billion people?

How will the world vaccinate seven billion people?

Image copyright Reuters Teams across the world are working to develop a vaccine that will be effective against Covid-19. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called it “the most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes”. But away from the high-tech science of finding a winning formula, what about the logistics of rolling out a vaccine to … Read more