What’s in a COVID vaccine?
We examine every single ingredient.
You may have heard a lot about how COVID vaccines work over the past years, and how they are being rolled out. But sc...
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Pfizer vaccine for kids: Safety, side effects, allergies and doses
The COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine for 5-11 year olds explained.
Australian children aged 5-11 will start to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from January 10, after it cleared the...
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Third dose: finally some results
Third “booster” doses of COVID-19 vaccines are safe and increase immunity when given to people wh...
COVID booster vaccine test resultsResults are in from the first randomised, double-blinded, controlled phase 2 cl...
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COVID Booster: pandemic pluses, summer flu and long-lasting vaccine passes its first test
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
Pfizer jabs aren't a heart attack risk for the over 75sGood news for those aged over 75, with a study from the Fr...
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COVID Booster: Vaccine tax, sense of smell, and masking kindy teachers
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
Maybe young kids can still see emotions through masksOne of the concerns around masking teachers is that children...
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COVID-19 and Aussie kids: What will the next few months look like?
While the US begins its vaccine rollout for children aged 5 to 11, it looks likely the same age c...
Safety data for the Pfizer vaccine in the 5–11 age cohort is beginning to roll in, with a paper published in NEJM thi...
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Good news for travellers: TGA recognises two more vaccines
People who’ve had Covaxin and a Sinopharm vaccine are now considered fully immunised in Australia.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has “recognised” a further two COVID-19 vaccines: Covaxin, made by Indian compan...
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COVID Frontline: breakthrough infection ends with a whimper
The thankfully dull end to a case of COVID-19.
When I first told my work colleagues of my COVID positive, our Editor-in-Chief thought one thing: diary! I duly penne...
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A letter to my vaccine-hesitant friends
Addressing your concerns…
A few weeks ago, I discovered that some of my friends – you know who you are – weren’t planning to get a COVID-19 vac...
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The rollout: The danger of vaccines vs the danger of COVID
How effective are the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines, and how do their risks compare with the ri...
AstraZeneca at largeJanuary 2021 witnessed the first national rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK. The g...
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Are COVID-19 vaccines experimental?
Some people claim that the testing of the vaccines was rushed, but that’s not true. Elizabeth Fin...
Are COVID-19 vaccines experimental? Yes – to the extent that any vaccine against a new strain of virus raises new saf...
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COVID Booster: More variants, gut instinct, and pounding the pavement during lockdown
Five things we learned about COVID-19 this week.
Big study shows breakthrough infections are less severeA UK study of over a million participants has found that p...