The influence of bots on vaccine-related discussions on social media is a lot smaller than we think, with only a minor fraction of information from
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TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 — One of the big questions around any new COVID-19 vaccine is: Will it safely protect those at highest risk from
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Scientists are planning for Phase 1 human trials of a vaccine they developed by using CRISPR gene-editing technology to mutate the parasite that causes leishmaniasis,
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The British government says it may take part in a study that tries to deliberately infect volunteers who have been given an experimental vaccine against
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US President Donald Trump said Friday he expects enough COVID-19 vaccines “for every American” will be produced by next April, as a host of European
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Global health authorities are frantically pursuing a vaccine against the novel coronavirus in the hope that it will allow everyone to get back to a
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The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad—a week after the U.N. health
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Canada announced deals on Monday with US companies Novavax and Johnson & Johnson for millions doses of their experimental COVID-19 vaccines. The agreements bring the
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The head of the US Food and Drug Administration raised the possibility in an interview published Sunday that a future vaccine against the coronavirus might
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An estimated 24,000 to 62,000 people died from the flu in the United States during the 2019-20 flu season. And that was a relatively mild
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