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Editor’s note: KHN wrote about St. James Parish Hospital in April, when it was experiencing its first surge of covid-19 patients. Ten months later, we checked in to see how the hospital and its staff were faring. The “heroes work here” sign in front of St. James Parish Hospital has been long gone, along with

As a viral immunologist who develops immunization strategies to prevent infectious diseases and treat cancers, I would like to highlight outstanding questions about the emergency use of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. These vaccines have raised hopes that the pandemic is nearing an end. Hopefully this is true, but here are some

Inside the dome of Belgrade’s concrete fair hall, dozens of nurses in hazmat suits inject COVID-19 shots into young and old alike, working with an efficiency that has turned Serbia into continental Europe’s fastest vaccinator. The small Balkan country has inoculated more than 450,000 of its population of seven million in almost two weeks, a

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo received the nation’s first coronavirus vaccine live on television last month, but despite the fanfare, his ambitious inoculation campaign is already facing glitches from refrigeration, distrust and disinformation.FILE PHOTO: Indonesian healthcare workers are seen during verification and health screening before receiving Sinovac’s vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Kinks in quickly established new production and distribution supply chains are a major reason why COVID-19 vaccines approved for use in the United States have been sluggish finding their way into people’s arms, says an expert in logistics and supply chains at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of

“All those years I’ve been in diagnostic imaging, I had never heard the word BRCA before,” Knowles says. That pushed him to look into his family history. Knowles knew that his mom and aunt had died of breast cancer, but he also learned that his great aunt died of it as well, and four of