Kamil Macniak/Shutterstock Tara Hurst, Birmingham City University Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine became available for children aged five to 11 in the UK in April 2022. Those aged 12 and up had already been eligible since 2021. But if you have a child aged under five, you might be wondering, when will they be able to be vaccinated against COVID-19? Children under …
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Whose freedom is the ‘freedom convoy’ fighting for? Not everyone’s
A person holds a sign for the “freedom convoy” a cross-country convoy protesting a federal vaccine mandate for truckers, as people rally against COVID-19 restrictions on Parliament Hill. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang Gerald Walton, Lakehead University The so-called “freedom convoy” has captured worldwide attention as a minority of truckers and their supporters have asserted their right to assemble and oppose …
Read More »Piss off? Annoy? Shit on? Why Macron’s use of the French swear word ‘emmerder’ is so hard to translate
Pierre-Yves Modicom, Université Bordeaux Montaigne When French president Emmanuel Macron vowed to “emmerder” the unvaccinated in France, he did not just throw down the gauntlet on his Covid policies, he also sparked a fervent linguistic debate. The word emmerder is a verb derived from the noun merde, which in English literally translates to “shit”. But properly translating emmerder is far …
Read More »Pourquoi les dosages des vaccins sont différents chez les enfants et les adultes
Pourquoi les dosages des vaccins sont différents chez les enfants et les adultes Brian Peppers, West Virginia University À la naissance, notre espèce est particulièrement vulnérable et le développement entamé dans le ventre maternel se poursuit lors de nos premières années de vie. À tous les niveaux. Tout comme nous devons apprendre à marcher, notre système immunitaire doit, lui, apprendre à se …
Read More »Omicron is the new COVID kid on the block: five steps to avoid, ten to take immediately
What not to do: ban travel. Scenes at South Africa’s OR Tambo International airport after the first flight bans were announced. Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images Shabir A. Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa reacted with outrage to travel bans, first triggered by the UK, imposed on it in the wake of the news that its genomics …
Read More »A mix-and-match approach to COVID-19 vaccines could provide logistical and immunological benefits
One of this and one of that might be a good strategy to coronavirus vaccination. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Maureen Ferran, Rochester Institute of Technology While it’s now pretty easy to get a COVID-19 shot in most places in the U.S., the vaccine rollout in other parts of the world has been slow or inconsistent due to shortages, uneven …
Read More »Ce que la crise de la Covid-19 nous dit de l’UE
Sylvain Kahn, Sciences Po Cette année, la journée de l’Europe (le 9 mai) a fait écho au premier anniversaire du plan de relance européen, symbole de la panoplie de politiques publiques déployée en réponse à la crise sanitaire, économique et sociale du Covid. Si cette journée est célébrée le 9 mai, c’est parce que le 9 mai 1950 Robert Schuman prononça son discours sur …
Read More »How well your immune system works can depend on the time of day
Our body clock has evolved over millions of years to help us survive. kanyanat wongsa/ Shutterstock Annie Curtis, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences When microorganisms – such as bacteria or viruses – infect us, our immune system jumps into action. It’s highly trained to sense and eliminate infections and clear up any damage caused by them. It’s typically …
Read More »Israel faces legal – and practical – obligations for including Palestinians in vaccine success
Palestinian patients infected with COVID-19 registering at an emergency unit in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AP Photo/Nasser Nasser Yara M. Asi, University of Central Florida As nations scramble to vaccinate populations against COVID-19, one country has been ahead of the rest: Israel. By late January, Israel had vaccinated more than 30% of its population – more than double …
Read More »Why herd immunity may be impossible without vaccinating children against COVID-19
Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University U.S. Census Bureau, CC BY-ND It may be summer before children under 16 can be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the United States. That’s a problem for reaching herd immunity quickly. Children are a significant portion of the population – roughly 65 million are under the age of 16, making up 20% of people in …
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