Moderna on Wednesday announced that the COVID-19 vaccine it recently developed to address a concerning new coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa is ready to be tested in humans in clinical trials. Moderna in a news release said that it has shipped the first batch of doses of the new jab to the National… Read More »
Figures showing more than a quarter of Australians will delay receiving a COVID-19 vaccine just a week before the country’s rollout are “concerning”, according to the nation’s chief medical officer. A Department of Health survey shows less that half of Australians are prepared to receive the vaccine as soon as it becomes available, though 71… Read More »
Article content Vaccine hesitancy is more a factor of public trust in institutions and less a problem of scientific literacy says Maya Goldenberg, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph and author of the book Vaccine Hesitancy Public Trust, Expertise and the War on Science. For most people who ask questions about vaccines,… Read More »
Retail mogul Gerry Harvey fears consumers will avoid shopping at outlets where not all sales staff have been vaccinated for COVID-19. The Harvey Norman co-founder said he would be getting the “jab” when the vaccine was rolled out in Australia and he expected his top executives to follow suit. “Certainly, people like me will be… Read More »
Los Angeles has started to use digital receipts for people who have gotten a COVID-19 vaccination. Although this may feel like just one more step integrating digital record-keeping, it goes well beyond and ultimately has a much larger goal. Digital health passports and vaccine verifications are just the beginning of data collection and social engineering… Read More »
I’m fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Isn’t that an extraordinary statement? Twelve months ago nobody had heard of COVID-19. Yet here I am with vaccine-induced antibodies that provide a significant level of protection against a virus that has caused so much illness, death, grief, hardship and loneliness, and made 2020 miserable. I still can’t quite believe… Read More »