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Category: Booster shots

Posted on January 11, 2022January 11, 2022

Booster doses only mitigate disease severity, do not fully prevent infection

Though 90.8 million people above 60 years, 9.7 million health-care workers and nearly 17 million frontline workers have received the second dose as on January 9, the actual number of…

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Posted on January 9, 2022

Are there clinical trial data to support a homologous vaccine booster?

This means those who have received Covishield as their first and second dose will receive Covishield as their third dose. Similarly, those who have received Covaxin in their first two…

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Posted on January 4, 2022

India widens the vaccine safety net by immunising teenagers above 15 years

With all adults aged 18 years and above already being covered, the inclusion of teenagers has reduced the eligibility age group to 15 years. Over 0.35 million teenagers have already…

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Posted on January 1, 2022January 1, 2022

The basis on which India approves precaution dose remains unclear

He said the primary focus of the government was on giving a second dose of the vaccine to make people fully vaccinated. “Administering the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine to…

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Posted on December 11, 2021December 11, 2021

How the idea of vaccine protection changed in one year

On this day last year (December 11, 2020), Pfizer’s vaccine for COVID-19 was granted an emergency use authorisation, and exactly a week later, Moderna’s vaccine was granted an EUA. On…

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Posted on December 11, 2021December 12, 2021

Does the Omicron variant make a case for booster doses?

At a recent meeting, the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation maintained that it was not recommending a booster dose for any section of the population, priority groups included, in…

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Posted on December 11, 2021December 12, 2021

Groping in the dark on booster doses

Even when clamour from a few States for booster doses increased once the new variant with higher transmissibility causing a huge surge in cases in South Africa became known, the…

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Posted on November 25, 2021

Virus rages in Europe as epicentre shifts

The continent reported nearly two million new cases last week, the highest since the pandemic began, and more than half of the global COVID-19 deaths this month were in Europe.…

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