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2020 18 Nov

Pfizer has completed the Phase 3 of its COVID-19 vaccine trial and is ready to seek authorisation for emergency use in the U.S. The vaccine is reported to be 95% effective. Two other vaccine candidates, those of Moderna and the Russian Gamaleya Research Institute, demonstrated 94.5% and 92% efficacy, respectively, but the trials are still...Read more

2020 15 Jun

A group of experts is proposing a scorecard that may help to assess governments’ pandemic response and better prepare for future outbreaks.   You might also like: Lifting COVID-19 Restrictions – What’s Next?   In a  comment published in Nature Medicine , the authors propose six recommendations with regard to the implementation...Read more

2020 15 Jun

In a recent piece for Campaign for Social Care, Andrew Tatem , Professor of Spatial Demography and Epidemiology, University of Southampton and Director of WorldPop and Flowminder , analyses how increased global connectivity has helped COVID-19 to become the fastest-spreading disease in history.   You might also like : COVID-19: Data...Read more