Vaccines are designed to give you immunity without the dangers of getting the disease. It’s common to experience some mild to moderate side effects when receiving vaccinations. This is because your immune system instructs your body to increase blood flow so more immune cells can circulate, and it ...raises your body temperature to kill the virus. Vaccines help protect us against disease and feeling mild or moderate side effects after receiving one is a sign that the vaccine and our immune system is working.
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Essais cliniques, autorisation d’utilisation d’urgence, production, transport, stockage et finalement administration par les soignants locaux : suivez le parcours d’un vaccin.
1 April 2021
In our unequal world, how does inequity impact our fight against COVID-19? How can we address it? WHO’s Dr Mariângela Simao explains in Science in 5 this week.
Impfungen retten Leben – nicht nur im Rahmen der Corona-Pandemie! Eine richtige Impftechnik gehört über die Allgemeinmedizin hinaus zu den medizinischen Basisfähigkeiten. Mit der gezeigten Standardmethode durch Injektion in den Musculus deltoideus können fast alle Impfstoffe ab dem Kleinkindal...ter verabreicht werden.
In diesem Video erfahrt ihr alles, worauf ihr im Rahmen der Impfung achten müsst – die wichtigsten Kontraindikationen, die Patientenaufklärung und anschließende Dokumentation.
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Learn about the composition and delivery mechanism for the new classes of COVID-19 vaccines based on adenovirus from Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca with Dr. Jonathan Genzen, COO of ARUP Laboratories and an Associate Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
All health workers involved in implementation of COVID-19 vaccination need to have adequate knowledge and skills in order to ensure safe and efficient COVID-19 vaccine administration. The COVID-19 vaccination training for health workers package is developed for frontline health workers in countries.... The package, developed in collaboration with UNICEF, consists of 6 modules, which include video lectures, quizzes, job aids, interactive exercises and downloadable presentations with the available information.
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What do we know about the Delta variant so far? How can we assess our risk? What strategies should we apply to protect ourselves whether we are in a low vaccination or high vaccination setting? WHO’s Dr Maria Van Kerkhove explains in Science in 5.
mRNA vaccines have to potential to end the COVID19 pandemic. How do they work? Are they safe? And how could they've been developed so quickly?
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Les vaccins sont conçus pour vous conférer une immunité sans les dangers d’avoir contracté la maladie. Il est courant de ressentir quelques effets indésirables légers à modérés après avoir reçu un vaccin. Ils sont dus au fait que votre système immunitaire demande à votre organisme d'a...ugmenter le flux sanguin afin que davantage de cellules immunitaires puissent circuler, et il élève votre température interne afin de tuer le virus. Les vaccins nous aident à nous protéger contre les maladies, et ressentir des effets indésirables légers ou modérés après avoir reçu un vaccin est un signe que ce vaccin et notre système immunitaire fonctionnent.
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As new variants emerge people are wondering if they should wait until a more efficacious vaccine is available or if they should go ahead and get vaccinated now? Answering your questions on COVID-19 vaccines and variants in this episode of Science in 5 is WHO's Dr Soumya Swaminathan.
If you have been wondering when you would receive your vaccine? Why you should get vaccinated and are concerned about what your are hearing about side effects, this episode of Science with 5 with WHO’s Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan is for you.
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