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Youngest kids least willing to get COVID-19 jab

In a large school-based survey of students from 9 to 18 years old (Years 5 to 13), researchers from the University of Oxford, UCL and the University of Cambridge have discovered that the younger you are, the less likely you are to want a COVID-19 vaccination. Writing in EClinicalMedicine, the authors present the results of […]

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Hospitals in crisis in least vaccinated state: Mississippi

As patients stream into Mississippi hospitals one after another, doctors and nurses have become all too accustomed to the rampant denial and misinformation about COVID-19 in the nation’s least vaccinated state. People in denial about the severity of their own illness or the virus itself, with visitors frequently trying to enter hospitals without masks. The […]

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COVID immunity lasts at least eight months, new data reveals

Australian researchers have revealed—for the first time—that people who have been infected with the COVID-19 virus have immune memory to protect against reinfection for at least eight months. The research is the strongest evidence for the likelihood that vaccines against the virus, SARS-CoV-2, will work for long periods. Previously, many studies have shown that the […]

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Infectious Disease Least Severe in School-Aged Children

TUESDAY, Oct. 27, 2020 — School-aged children seem to have the least severe disease for different infectious diseases, according to a study published online Oct. 15 in Scientific Data. Judith R. Glynn, Ph.D., from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Paul A.H. Moss, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Birmingham, both in […]