Never before have we watched vaccines being developed in real time, and so rapidly.
There’s elation one day as a vaccine is announced to be safe and highly effective; disappointment another day when it’s revealed it doesn’t work as well against new variants.
And the backdrop to this is wonder and sometimes suspicion that these vaccines are able to have been developed so quickly.
So today on Coronacast, how you can make sense of the rollercoaster that is waiting for a vaccine rollout, what sources to trust and should you try to convince your vaccine hesitant friend to get vaccinated?
GUEST:
Julie Leask, Professor at University of Sydney in the Faculty of Medicine and Health
South Africa says it’s suspending the rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine while it goes through the results of a recent study which has thrown the vaccine’s effectiveness into question. Data […]
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