Vaccination campaigns that promote how having the Covid-19 vaccination will benefit individuals rather than society are more effective to convince people who are neutral or…
South Africa must make dramatic shifts in its Covid-19 prevention strategies to include new evidence that Sars-CoV-2 spreads mainly through the air
We ask the infectious diseases specialist 18 questions about the Covid-19 pandemic: from how to counter vaccine hesitancy to whether life will ever return to ‘normal’
Even if herd immunity is finally reached in South Africa, non-pharmaceutical measures are necessary
Covid deniers and anti-vaxxers seem to want more excess deaths and a shorter life span
The electoral commission heard that delaying local government elections will be an assault on democracy and that people’s lives should not be put at risk during the Covid crisis
South Africa’s stop-start roll-out is not the only reason herd immunity is unrealistic for 2021. A constrained vaccine supply and new variants also play a role
A group of scientists has criticised the decision to sell SA’s AstraZeneca vaccine and says herd immunity mean vaccines will play a lesser role
Although the country got off to a slow start, experts are hopeful SA’s Covid-19 inoculation drive will scale up soon
Conditions in South Africa and elsewhere are fertile ground for big-man authoritarian populism to take root
Easing lockdown regulations and allowing alcohol, the president said the majority of vaccines will arrive between April and June
Infections numbers are surging around the world, especially in Europe where nations have been forced to ramp up virus restrictions even as vaccines are rolled out.
Although South Africa’s variant of Covid-19 does not cause more severe illness, the country, according to the president, must be ‘diligent, vigilant and compliant’
Medical aid schemes and businesses will help the government with the cost of acquiring enough vaccines for the South African population to achieve herd immunity
The basics of epidemiology will help explain why some of the believable but incorrect propositions about the pandemic are wrong.
The methods that work in Western nations rarely translate into African contexts
Discerning leadership is critical in the time of Covid-19 and John Magufuli’s decisions — or lack thereof — have put Tanzanians at greater risk
