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How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine - Knowable Magazine How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine - Knowable Magazine Posted: 31 Mar 2021 12:59 PM PDT Hesitancy rates are falling but they're still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. By John H. Tibbetts The most common strategy for a vaccination campaign is simple: "If we build it, they will come." But what if millions of Americans won't get vaccinated for Covid-19? A growing number of experts say that public health agencies have it backward. The strategy should be: "If we build it, we must take it to the people." In a January 2021 survey of Americans, more than 4 in 10 Black adults, about the same proportion of all young people (age 18 to 29), and nearly as many Hispanic adults said they would be hesitant about getting an FDA-approved vaccine when it is av...

Polio - MSF UK Polio - MSF UK Posted: 28 Oct 2020 06:35 AM PDT There are two types of vaccine available for prevention: oral polio vaccine (OPV) and the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). If enough people in a community are immunised, the virus will be deprived of susceptible hosts. This will prevent its spread, causing it to die out. The oral polio vaccine is easily given, safe and provides potentially life-long protection. It also produces an immune response in the intestine, making it effective in preventing transmission of the virus within communities. The inactivated polio vaccine is given in four doses as an injection. It is more expensive than the oral vaccine, produces a lower level of immunity, and does not stop transmission from person to person. Oral polio vaccine had therefore been the vaccine of choice in many countries. However, because the oral vaccine contains attenuated (weakened) polioviruses, on extremely rare occasions,...

Iowans played an important part in the evolution of vaccines - KCRG Iowans played an important part in the evolution of vaccines - KCRG Posted: 22 Mar 2021 08:27 PM PDT CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Health experts point to vaccines as the way to end the COVID-19 pandemic. With more than 44 million Americans and nearly half a million Iowans now fully vaccinated, they're hopeful for a return to normal life this summer. Iowans remember how vaccines have changed history before: by bringing an end to the polio epidemic. In 1952, there were more than 57,000 reported cases of polio in the United States, some of which caused paralysis, with the need for braces or an iron lung. More than 3,000 people died. That same year, Dr. Jonas Salk began early tests of his vaccine. "It appears now, that we have a practical means to inducing antibody formation to poliomyelitis virus," Salk said during an interview, introducing his vaccine. Dr. S...

Help the fight against polio and measles in the Philippines - GMA News Help the fight against polio and measles in the Philippines - GMA News Posted: 23 Mar 2021 10:05 PM PDT Every parent or guardian has two major roles to play in eradicating polio and measles in the country. The first is to give their children the proper vaccine; the other is to spread awareness to others that immunization is the key to prevent all Filipino children from getting these diseases. Polio and measles spread faster within an unvaccinated population. The Department of Health (DOH) has launched the Measles Rubella-Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization campaign to vaccinate 9.4 million children for measles and 6.9 million children for the oral polio vaccine to stop possible outbreaks in the future. What is polio? Poliomyelitis , or polio, is an infectious disease that attacks the nervous system and may cause paralysis in children in extreme cases. It is ...

New immunotherapy piggybacks off polio vaccine to treat cancer - The Science Board New immunotherapy piggybacks off polio vaccine to treat cancer - The Science Board Posted: 17 Dec 2020 10:51 AM PST By Samantha Black, PhD, The Science Advisory Board editor in chief December 17, 2020 -- As if we needed another reason to get vaccinated, researchers have developed a technology that leverages the polio vaccine to help treat cancer for those who develop the disease later in life. The technology, conceived at Duke University and developed by Istari Oncology, uses antigens produced by the polio vaccine to trigger the immune system to eat away at targeted cancer cells. Matt Stober, president and CEO of Istari Oncology. Istari is a company that was spun out of Duke University Tisch Brain Tumor Center and is focused on developing novel immunotherapies for solid tumors, according to Matthew Stober, president and CEO of Istari and Dr. Garrett N...

Virus Variants Likely Evolved Inside People With Weak Immune Systems - The New York Times Virus Variants Likely Evolved Inside People With Weak Immune Systems - The New York Times Posted: 15 Mar 2021 12:00 AM PDT The version of the coronavirus that surfaced in Britain late last year was shocking for many reasons. It came just as vaccines had offered a glimpse of the end of the pandemic, threatening to dash those hopes. It was far more contagious than earlier variants, leading to a swift increase in hospitalizations. And perhaps most surprising to scientists: It had amassed a large constellation of mutations seemingly overnight. A coronavirus typically gains mutations on a slow-but-steady pace of about two per month. But this variant, called B.1.1.7, had acquired 23 mutations that were not on the virus first identified in China. And 17 of those had developed all at once, sometime after it diverged from its most recent ancestor. Experts ...

Polio - MSF UK Polio - MSF UK Posted: 28 Oct 2020 06:35 AM PDT There are two types of vaccine available for prevention: oral polio vaccine (OPV) and the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). If enough people in a community are immunised, the virus will be deprived of susceptible hosts. This will prevent its spread, causing it to die out. The oral polio vaccine is easily given, safe and provides potentially life-long protection. It also produces an immune response in the intestine, making it effective in preventing transmission of the virus within communities. The inactivated polio vaccine is given in four doses as an injection. It is more expensive than the oral vaccine, produces a lower level of immunity, and does not stop transmission from person to person. Oral polio vaccine had therefore been the vaccine of choice in many countries. However, because the oral vaccine contains attenuated (weakened) polioviruses, on extremely rare occasions,...

WATCH NOW: Survivor of polio pandemic takes COVID vaccine - Martinsville Bulletin WATCH NOW: Survivor of polio pandemic takes COVID vaccine - Martinsville Bulletin Posted: 25 Mar 2021 12:06 PM PDT {{featured_button_text}} Patricia Gravely had hesitations about getting the COVID-19 vaccine, wondering if she might have a negative reaction to the serum. She had a history with polio. Would that make a difference? But in the end she said she figured it would be better for her and everyone else if she got the shot. Which she did during a vaccination event at the National Guard Armory in Martinsville on Thursday morning Afterward, from the passenger seat of her son Wayne's car, she smiled and waved. Patricia Gravely had polio as a baby and was in elementary school when the vaccine was developed and given. She got her COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday at the armory in Martinsville. Holly Kozelsky ...

WATCH NOW: Survivor of polio pandemic takes COVID vaccine - Martinsville Bulletin WATCH NOW: Survivor of polio pandemic takes COVID vaccine - Martinsville Bulletin Posted: 25 Mar 2021 12:06 PM PDT {{featured_button_text}} Patricia Gravely had hesitations about getting the COVID-19 vaccine, wondering if she might have a negative reaction to the serum. She had a history with polio. Would that make a difference? But in the end she said she figured it would be better for her and everyone else if she got the shot. Which she did during a vaccination event at the National Guard Armory in Martinsville on Thursday morning Afterward, from the passenger seat of her son Wayne's car, she smiled and waved. Patricia Gravely had polio as a baby and was in elementary school when the vaccine was developed and given. She got her COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday at the armory in Martinsville. Holly Kozelsky ...