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A health official tries to drop a polio vaccine into the mouth of a child at Kaiama town in Bayelsa State.
ALBERT SABIN

Covid vaccines: Hope balanced with caution

As Covid vaccines near the manufacturing stage, a look at two polio vaccines provides valuable historical insights

  • Philip Machanick
6 min read
RYAZAN REGION, RUSSIA – OCTOBER 26, 2020: A feldsher (paramedical practitioner) administers a flu vaccine to a patient in a rural medical centre in the village of Panino, Spassk-Ryazansky District, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexander Ryumin/TASS (Photo by Alexander RyuminTASS via Getty Images)
COVID 19

Wheeling and dealing for a Covid-19 vaccine

A Covid-19 jab could cost hundreds of rands. Or not. It’s anyone’s guess. Could another pandemic almost a century ago hold clues for handling the coronavirus today?

  • Laura López González
11 min read
Ongoing suspicion of the polio vaccine in Pakistan has been compounded recently by anti-vaccination videos circulating on social media. (Reuters)
ATTACKS

Pakistan polio vaccine teams on edge after fatal attacks

Multiple polio vaccination workers in Pakistan have been killed in attacks targeting health workers in the country’s northwest earlier this week

  • Agency
2 min read