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U.S. plans phased allocation of coronavirus vaccines starting this month
This animation explains how the U.S. plans to roll out vaccinations for COVID-19
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Understanding Coronavirus
A new threat to human health, a disease called COVID-19, is spreading rapidly around the globe. The cause of COVID-19 is a coronavirus, named for the crown-like spikes on the surface of the virus particles. In this audio story, an...
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FDA approves use of HPV vaccine for adults 27 to 45
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a human papillomavirus vaccine for adults age 27 - 45.
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KILL OR CURE - Preparing for the Pandemic
The world stands on the edge of a flu pandemic, according to the world’s leading experts. The results, they predict, will be catastrophic. Millions of deaths, economies and civil society in chaos, political life undermined or destroyed....
Healthcare Triage
Can Text Messages Increase Vaccination Rates?
Remember last week’s episode on the exercise megastudy? Well, there’s another megastudy in existence! This time on using text message reminders to encourage people to get vaccinated for the flu. We’ve got the deets for you on today’s...
Healthcare Triage
You Should Get a Flu Shot
One of the arguments you hear most often by people who don't want to get immunized against influenza is that the flu just isn't a big deal; it's just a bad cold. It's not. There are lots of other things people often get wrong about flu...
The Wall Street Journal
On The Frontlines With The Chan Zuckerburg Initiative
Priscilla Chan, co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg initiative and Technology Editor Yun-Hee Kim discuss how technology can be better utilized to respond to Covid-19 at WSJ Tech Live.
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How the UK & EU's Vaccine Dispute Almost Caused a Hard Irish Border - TLDR News
The Irish Border has always been contentious. The Brexit negotiations sought to ensure that peace would continue on the border and when they were successful, no-one probably expected it to be undone by vaccines. In this video we explain...
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CDC says vaccinated people can spread delta
Vaccinated people who become infected can spread the delta variant, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Healthcare Triage
The Facts About Vaccine Passports
Vaccine passports are a big topic right now, even though “passport” might be the wrong word. We take a look at what they are and what they aren’t, and dig deeper into the concerns most commonly voiced about them.
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KILL OR CURE - The Race for an AIDS Vaccine
This is the glittering prize of drug R&D. In 1992 the US Government promised a vaccine within two years. Despite 25 years of research no one has found it. But in the slums of Nairobi in Kenya they may have made a breakthrough which they...
Healthcare Triage
Soccer Concussions, HPV Vaccines, and Pregnant Drinking: Healthcare Triage News
How dangerous is heading a soccer ball? Who's mandating the HPV vaccine in the US? And how many women are drinking while pregnant in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK? This is Healthcare Triage News.
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Study finds stomach viruses cluster together to become more deadly
A study published in Cell Host & Microbe found that different stomach virus tend to be more contagious when the virus particles cluster together.
Healthcare Triage
Can You Get Reinfected with Covid?
Reports have surfaced of individuals being re-infected with Covid-19, raising questions about immunity via natural infection as well as questions about the utility of vaccines. Here we take a look at the data to see how common...
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KILL OR CURE - Outbreak - Curbing the Tide of Meningitis
In March 2007, as a meningitis epidemic was raging in Burkina Faso, we filmed a poignant and revealing account of the devastating impact meningitis epidemics have on individuals, families, and communities. Meningitis is a deadly...
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The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, host Joshua investigates the timeline for vaccine development and whether there is any hope of eradicating the virus. Pandemic part 1/7
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MOT 1948: REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Angled WS Bureau of Animal Husbandry laboratory, FAO (United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization) helping w/ vaccine, VS Male scientist injecting chicken eggs, placing in incubator, checking eggs
MOT 1948: REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Angled WS Bureau of Animal Husbandry laboratory, FAO (United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization) helping w/ vaccine, VS Male scientist injecting chicken eggs, placing in incubator, checking eggs, MS Four...
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SURVIVAL: The Deadliest Disease
Sleeping Sickness is the deadliest disease in the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo suffers more cases than any other country. Without treatment, parasites called trypanosomes invade the victim’s brain, ravage their sleep cycle,...
Curated Video
Covid-19: more questions about coronavirus, answered
What has the world learned about the novel coronavirus and its knock-on effects on the global economy? Ed Carr, The Economist's deputy editor, and Alok Jha, our science correspondent, answer more of your questions about the virus.
The Wall Street Journal
J&J CEO on Single-dose Vaccine Development
Johnson & Johnson CEO, Alex Gorsky offers a look inside the consumer giant's mobilization to develop its single dose vaccine, its effectiveness against new emerging variants and its partnership with Merck to boost production.
Healthcare Triage
The 2017 Flu Killed 80,000 in the US. Get a Flu Shot!
Influenza killed 80,000 people last year in the United States. That is the highest number of deaths since the CDC started keeping records in the 1970s. Help protect yourself and those around you. Get a flu shot!
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KILL OR CURE - The Vaccine of Hope
Japanese Encephalitis kills thousands of children across Asia and leaves thousands more disabled. A new vaccine, developed and manufactured in China, is being rolled out across Southern Asia for the first time. The new manufacturing...
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Creating plant-based vaccines
Vaccine firm Medicago has successfully used a plant-based production method to create more than 10 million doses of an H1N1 VLP influenza vaccine candidate in one month, the US Department of Defense's DARPA lab announced on July 25.
Financial Times
Joe Biden faces multiple domestic crises
The FT's Washington correspondent Kiran Stacey looks ahead to the five key domestic crises that Joe Biden will have to tackle after his inauguration as US president on January 20