To celebrate the beginning of World Immunization Week, let’s focus on its biggest roadblock – vaccine hesitancy.
Tag: Coronavirus
Nanoparticle based vaccines: a potentially new addition to the “vaccine menu”?
Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash A versatile and highly effective flu vaccine required in tiny amounts might be just around the corner:...
HLA Genotype and its effect on the severity of COVID-19 Infections
Isabelle Ferenczi introduces the importance of Human Leukocyte Antigens and their potential role in determining a given patient’s response to...
Are mRNA vaccines our way out of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Seán Dunphy discusses recent developments in COVID-19 vaccines. Image credit: Alexander Koch via Pixabay Vaccine development is complex and often...
Fake science: an infodemic in a pandemic
Image credit: Kruthika Sundaram The pandemic brought the world to a halt, allowing for focus on important issues such as...
Sex differences in immune responses to COVID-19
Image credit: Kruthika Sundaram There are a broad range of COVID-19 symptoms, which widely differ in severity between patients. Age...
COVID-19: Unmasking the benefits of face masks
Masks could be more effective than earlier thought, blocking up to 99.9% of COVID-19 laden droplets released by infected patients...
Coronagenes: A study of the genes behind severe COVID-19
Image credit: Coronagenes, University of Edinburgh COVID-19 affects individuals in different ways. Some people are asymptomatic whereas others require intensive...
COVID-19, a disease of the blood vessels?
Image credit: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay. COVID-19 baffled doctors and scientists around the world with its strange symptoms and disproportionate mortality...
