FactFind: What are Covid-19 vaccines effective at preventing?
A social media post has drawn incorrect conclusions to suggest that Covid-19 vaccines are ineffective.
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A social media post has drawn incorrect conclusions to suggest that Covid-19 vaccines are ineffective.
Moving people with underlying conditions to a higher position on the vaccine priority list would be “fair and reasonable”, the Taoiseach has said.
People aged 85 and older are next in line to receive the vaccine.
The research was carried out by the University of Bristol and King’s College London.
Frontline healthcare workers have received 89,900 doses, including 76,100 first doses and 13,800 second doses.
Gardaí, the HSE and the Department of Health have emphasised that your GP would be the first point of contact about the Covid vaccine.
Current supply is being used to provide second doses to those who have already received their first dose.
The British Medical Association said extending the gap between the first and second Pfizer vaccine doses is not justified by the science.
RGDATA is asking for frontline retail staff to be vaccinated quicker.
Significant numbers of firefighters are still waiting to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
It comes a similar controversy at the Coombe Hospital was reported last night.
An early delivery would be sent to GPs and pharmacies to be ready for use when the vaccine approved.
The Pfizer plant in Belgium is working to increase capacity.
A false claim on social media suggests that a Pfizer document said vaccine recipients should not have unprotected sex for 28 days after receiving their second dose.
71% said they would get the Covid-19 vaccine, which is higher than in Germany or France, and lower than in the UK.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 has arrived in Ireland.
Germany’s Bild newspaper reports that the European Medicines Agency will now meet on 23 December.
DCU communications expert Dr Padraig Murphy says Government must get the vaccine messaging right.
The report aims to set out the entire vaccination process – from procurement to storage to inoculation.
Dr Glynn said three quarters of Irish people are likely to accept a Covid-19 vaccine.
False claims have spread on social media about Covid-19 testing and vaccination.
Neither the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine nor the Moderna vaccine were developed using foetal tissue.
Margaret Keenan said: “If I can have it at 90 then you can have it too… Go for it.”
Vaccinations will be administered at dozens of hospital hubs from Tuesday.
Simon Harris has said that TDs should support advice from public health experts as a vaccination programme is rolled out at the start of next year.
Let’s take a look at how trials for the Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines have involved older age groups.
The vaccine will be rolled out in Northern Ireland from next week.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said the UK has the ‘best medical regulator’.
The Cabinet is also due to be updated on the progress to date of the Government’s new task force on the delivery of vaccines.
Stephen Donnelly has said that a vaccine will likely be available in Ireland early in 2021.
Micheál Martin told Virgin Media that the Covid-19 vaccine “gives us hope, and enables us to say, ‘let’s double down’.”
People who are most vulnerable to Covid-19 will be the immediate priority of government.
The Mexican government is working with the company AstraZeneca to carry out trials of the Oxford vaccine.
Russia surprised the world when it announced the development of a vaccine last month.
A clip from a speech Varadkar made at the Global Vaccine Summit has been used to claim he said he supports forced vaccination for everyone in Ireland.
Elisa Granato was one of the first volunteers in a Covid-19 vaccine trial in the UK – and she’s alive and well.
Volunteers can sign up to a registry to link researchers with potential trial participants.
The US has been badly hit by the coronavirus, with over 4.2 million confirmed cases and nearly 150,000 deaths.