Early in March, some four weeks after the first AstraZeneca vaccine was administered in Europe, The Daily Telegraph reports that little signals – like flares –...
April 14th, 2021Professor Barry Schoub has in a strongly worded SA Medical Journal editorial criticised other experts who said the country should have gone ahead with the rollout of the...
A new study led by the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford with support from the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (UK-CIC) has found that 99% of people generate a...
March 31st, 2021The reasoning behind the National Department of Health and the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines refusing to use the AstraZeneca vaccine locally are...
South Africa has only administered 182,983 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, meaning we are hopelessly missing even our unambitious target of vaccinating 1m healthcare workers...Weekly Roundup
The national Health Department has announced that the sale of the million AstraZeneca vaccine doses to the AU has been concluded, reports TimesLIVE. The vaccine —...
March 17th, 2021Despite a national Health Department statement this week that the on-selling of South Africa's Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine stocks is virtually concluded, debate continues...
March 10th, 2021South Africa's decision not deploy the AstraZeneca vaccine is financially expensive, poor in science, and goes against the government's own assurances that it would take...
Emeritus Professor Jonny Myers, an occupational health and public health medicine specialist in the Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research at the...South Africa
The national Department of Health has issued a statement in which it denied a weekend newspaper report that there was tension between the political principals...
