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India Covid Vaccination Drive Crumbles Amid Surge in Cases, Deaths - Bloomberg India Covid Vaccination Drive Crumbles Amid Surge in Cases, Deaths - Bloomberg India’s failure to roll out a coherent Covid vaccination programme is astonishing - National Herald How COVID hurt the fight against other dangerous diseases - Nature.com India Covid Vaccination Drive Crumbles Amid Surge in Cases, Deaths - Bloomberg Posted: 29 Apr 2021 04:00 AM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content] India Covid Vaccination Drive Crumbles Amid Surge in Cases, Deaths    Bloomberg India's vaccine program must fix data and communication gaps    Quartz India India's Covid-19 Vaccines Can Definitely Be Cheaper. Will Its Makers Agree?    Forbes India Thus a campaign collapsed and the country was left in the midst of chaos - El Financiero    The Hilltop News View Full Coverage on Google News India...

The Last Time a Vaccine Saved America - The New Yorker The Last Time a Vaccine Saved America - The New Yorker Posted: 12 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT On the morning of April 12, 1955, an epidemiologist named Thomas Francis, Jr., took the stage of the Rackham Auditorium, at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Short and portly, in his mid-fifties, with a long face and a close-clipped mustache, Francis was there to deliver a ninety-minute lecture on the vaccine field trial he had just completed. The trial had evaluated the efficacy of the poliovirus vaccine developed by Jonas Salk, a former postdoc in Francis's lab. An influenza researcher, Francis was known among scientists for his deft direction of complex flu-vaccine trials during the Second World War. He had taught Salk the techniques necessary for developing "killed virus" vaccines—shots in which large quantities of a virus are disabled in a formaldehyde solution, then introdu...

MOH Completes 'House-to-House' Polio Vaccination Exercise - Liberian Daily Observer MOH Completes 'House-to-House' Polio Vaccination Exercise - Liberian Daily Observer At this point, COVID-19 is a preventable disease -- even as thousands continue to get infected every day - MLive.com Op-Ed: Why Redfield Is Wrong on SARS-CoV-2 Origins - MedPage Today MOH Completes 'House-to-House' Polio Vaccination Exercise - Liberian Daily Observer Posted: 05 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT Headquaters of the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Congo Town The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MHSW) with support from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), has recently completed a four-day polio vaccination exercise across Liberia. According to a press release, the ministry targeted to vaccinate 972,870 children under the age of five. The vaccination exercise started on Friday, March...

Adventist Review Online | Why Do Babies Need so Many Vaccines? - Adventist Review Adventist Review Online | Why Do Babies Need so Many Vaccines? - Adventist Review Posted: 28 Apr 2021 02:37 PM PDT April 28, 2021 A pediatric infectious disease specialist provides a rationale for infant vaccination. By: Sheann Brandon, Loma Linda University Health News A s a new parent, you may feel overwhelmed to be faced with the many steps involved in taking care of a new baby's health. One of those steps is infant immunizations. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), vaccinations are necessary for preventing infants from developing a severe illness, pain, disability, or even death from an infectious disease. Maulin Soneji, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, says that with early-in-life vaccinations, physicians are trying to prevent illnesses such as meningit...