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  1. The Importance of Vaccination in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Brief Update Regarding the Use of Vaccines

    The vaccines BNT162b2 (brand name Comirnaty), mRNA-1273 (brand name Spikevax), CoronaVac, BBIBP-CorV, AZD-1222 (brand name Vaxzevria or Covishield), and Ad26.COV2-S (brand name Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine) are the most widely used around the world for COVID-19 prophylaxis, since all of them use the S protein as the main activator of the immune ...

  2. Benefits of Getting A COVID-19 Vaccine

    There are many benefits of getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Prevents serious illness: COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States are safe and effective at protecting people from getting seriously ill, being hospitalized, and dying. A safer way to build protection: Getting a COVID-19 vaccine is a safer, more reliable way to build protection than getting sick with COVID-19.

  3. The Importance of Global COVID-19 Vaccination

    Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA. Moore, Sarah. (2022, January 17). The Importance of Global COVID-19 Vaccination.

  4. Why it's safe and important to get the COVID-19 vaccine

    The COVID-19 vaccination will help keep you from getting the virus. COVID-19 vaccines were evaluated in clinical trials and have been approved because those studies show that the vaccine significantly reduces the probability of contracting the virus. Based on what has been proved about vaccines for other diseases, the COVID-19 vaccine may help ...

  5. What you need to know about COVID-19 vaccines

    The COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective, but no vaccine provides 100 per cent protection. Some people will still get ill from COVID-19 after vaccination or pass the virus onto someone else. Therefore, it is important to continue practicing safety precautions to protect yourself and others, including avoiding crowded spaces, physical ...

  6. Covid-19 Vaccines

    Instead, the most important goal of Covid-19 vaccination should be to provide long-term protection against severe disease, hospitalization, and death from current and future variants.

  7. The story behind COVID-19 vaccines

    Amid the staggering amount of suffering and death during this historic pandemic of COVID-19, a remarkable success story stands out. The development of several highly efficacious vaccines against a previously unknown viral pathogen, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), in less than 1 year from the identification of the virus is unprecedented in the history of vaccinology.

  8. Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine

    For some COVID-19 vaccines, two doses are required . It's important to get the second dose if the vaccine requires two doses. For vaccines that require two doses, the first dose presents antigens - proteins that stimulate the production of antibodies - to the immune system for the first time. Scientists call this priming the immune response.

  9. The Importance of Getting Fully Vaccinated

    The fatality rate from Covid-19 based on more than 32 million confirmed cases in the United States is 1.8 percent. Over 245 million doses of Covid vaccines were administered by May 3, and a ...

  10. The importance and benefits of getting vaccinated against COVID-19

    COVID-19 vaccines have undergone, and will continue to undergo, the most intensive safety monitoring in history.. Vaccination around the world. Worldwide, more than 3.19 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine have been administered so far, according to figures compiled by Our World in Data. According to these figures, almost 27% of the world's ...

  11. Public attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination: The role of vaccine

    While efficacious vaccines have been developed to inoculate against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; also known as COVID-19), public vaccine hesitancy could still ...

  12. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Vaccines and vaccine safety

    All COVID-19 vaccines, listed by WHO as for emergency use or prequalified, provide protection against severe disease and death resulting from COVID-19 infection.. There are several types of COVID-19 vaccines, including: Inactivated or weakened virus vaccines: These use an inactivated or weakened version of the virus that doesn't cause disease but still generates an immune response,

  13. What are the Benefits of Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine?

    The vaccine can help your unborn baby or newborn. Studies have found that expectant mothers who receive the COVID-19 vaccine create antibodies to the virus and pass those to their unborn baby through the placenta. Mothers were also shown to pass antibodies to their newborns through breast milk. This suggests those newborns have some immunity to ...

  14. The benefits of large scale covid-19 vaccination

    The first covid-19 vaccines were administered under emergency use authorisation in December 2020, just one year into the pandemic, a "miracle" of pharmaceutical innovation that has saved an estimated million lives or more in the US alone.1 2 The authorisation was given on the basis of safety and efficacy in randomised controlled trials, which found that immunisation with Pfizer-BioNTech ...

  15. The Importance of Context in Covid-19 Vaccine Safety

    This experience shed light on the need for real-time vaccine safety surveillance and the importance of context in decision making during a pandemic. In a study now reported in the Journal by Barda ...

  16. Statement on the benefits of vaccines against COVID-19

    Vaccines are a very powerful tool in our fight against COVID-19. Following recent reports of a serious but extremely rare side effect of blood-clotting from two vaccines, we understand why people may be concerned about the risks of vaccination. But it is also important to keep in mind the risks of COVID-19: the risk of serious adverse reactions of vaccination is much lower than the risk of ...

  17. COVID-19 vaccine development: milestones, lessons and prospects

    Vaccine-induced Th1 cell response. Some COVID-19 vaccines would induce Th1 cell responses. After recognition of the AP-MHC class II complex and T-cell receptor (TCR), CD4 + T cells distributed in ...

  18. Persuasive Essay About Covid19

    Common Topics for a Persuasive Essay on COVID-19 . Here are some persuasive essay topics on COVID-19: The Importance of Vaccination Mandates for COVID-19 Control; Balancing Public Health and Personal Freedom During a Pandemic; The Economic Impact of Lockdowns vs. Public Health Benefits; The Role of Misinformation in Fueling Vaccine Hesitancy

  19. Vaccines

    Sierra Leone is a West African country with a population of over 8 million. With more than half of Sierra Leone's population living in rural areas, it is important to understand rural populations' access to and attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccine. In November 2021, the rate of vaccination coverage in Sierra Leone was only 7% for one dose and 4% for two doses. Understanding perspectives ...

  20. Frontiers

    Introduction. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that countries conduct a post-introduction evaluation (PIE) 6-12 months following the introduction of a new vaccine to help countries evaluate implementation and take corrective actions.A PIE aims to fully assess the progress of vaccine introduction and can be time and resource-intensive requiring in-person field visits at all ...

  21. The Cultural Influence of Familismo in Prompting Vaccination Against

    This study centers on familismo as a relevant cultural construct that adds a U.S. Latina/o/x perspective to the Health Belief Model. Employing a qualitative lens, we use in-depth semi-structured focus groups and interviews with participants living, working, and attending school in a mid-size city on the U.S./Mexico border on the decision to take the COVID-19 vaccine. We find that, for many ...

  22. Importance of Examining Incidentality in Vaccine Safety Assessment

    The author believes that the analyses of COVID-19 vaccine safety have areas for improvement because the proportion of papers that used the cohort study and the SCRI was negligible. ... Suzumura, Yasusi. 2024. "Importance of Examining Incidentality in Vaccine Safety Assessment" Vaccines 12, no. 5: 555. https: ...

  23. How to talk about vaccines

    Vaccines are safe, effective and an important part of the COVID-19 response - but stopping the spread of disease remains key. Remind people that they should keep taking other precautions, such as physical distancing, wearing a mask, keeping rooms well ventilated, avoiding crowds, cleaning hands, and coughing into a bent elbow or tissue. 3.

  24. COVID-19 Vaccine Information

    Everyone 6 months and older should get the latest COVID-19 vaccine to protect themselves from severe illness. The CDC also recommends that adults ages 65 years and older receive an additional dose of the updated COVID-19 vaccine at least four months after their first dose of the updated vaccine, which became available in fall 2023.

  25. What to Know About New Covid Variants, 'FLiRT': Symptoms, Vaccines and

    The latest on symptoms and long Covid. Doctors said that the symptoms of both KP.2 and JN.1 — which now makes up around 16 percent of cases — are most likely similar to those seen with other ...

  26. Frontiers

    Introduction: Vaccine hesitancy, an important threat to global health, has increased since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The public vaccination of high-profile figures, such as heads of state, has been touted as a potential tool for increasing vaccine acceptance among the general population.