Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) science conversation
In this video and audio series WHO experts explain the science related to COVID-19. This series is available every week on WHO's YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn channels and on all major podcasts platforms.
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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is evaluating potential COVID-19 treatments and vaccines to enable promising medicines to reach patients as soon as possible. It is also interacting with medicine developers and making use of real-world data to monitor the safety and effectiveness of medicines use...d in patients with COVID-19.
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Ausführliche Informationen zu klinischen Prüfungen und Risiken für bestimmte Gruppen sowie zu Wechselwirkungen und Nebenwirkungen von Impfstoffen und Arzneimitteln zu COVID-19 und SARS-CoV-2
Mobile vaccination teams visiting long-term care homes will have an important role in providing vaccination coverage for some of the most vulnerable population sub-groups. However, based on the experiences of German mobile diagnostic teams during the first COVID-19 pandemic w...ave, the deployment of mobile vaccination teams to care homes for older adults and people with disabilities is expected to raise various ethical challenges.
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This guide provides valuable resources for both, Healthcare Professionals (physicians, nurses and practitioners) and Health Consumers about the COVID-19 outbreak and recent research related to this topic.
The overall goal of this strategy is to ensure accurate understanding of the
benefits of covid-19 vaccination and alleviate apprehension about the vaccine, to ensure its acceptance and encourage uptake across various audiences.
Objectives
x Create demand, promote acceptability and accessibility o...f COVID-19
vaccine among at least 90% of the general public.
x Develop appropriate messages and identify channels to communicate
the potential benefits and risks of the vaccine to all concerned parties,
including decision-makers at all levels.
x Provide timely and accurate information to address misinformation,
rumors and other crisis situations.
x Effectively mobilize and empower communities to ensure participation
and ownership of the vaccination process
x Strengthen communication mechanisms and partnerships among key
stakeholders to support the national communication effort.
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Entwicklungen und gegenwärtige Situationen der Covid-19-Impfstoffe
26 July 2021
A Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), com apoio do Grupo Consultivo Estratégico de Especialistas em Imunização (Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization – SAGE) e do respectivo Grupo de Trabalho para Vacinas contra a COVID-19, está analisando novas evidências sobre o uso de vaci...nação heteróloga (conhecida também como vacinação mix and match). Na vacinação heteróloga, a segunda dose usa uma vacina diferente da que foi usada na primeira dose. Reforço heterólogo, por outro lado, refere-se à administração de uma vacina com plataforma tecnológica diferente da que foi usada para concluir o esquema primário de vacinação. Esta declaração provisória diz respeito apenas à vacinação heteróloga, e não ao reforço heterólogo.
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Достоверные ответы и конкретная информация о том, как защитить себя и помочь другим.
Vaccinator's Manual SINOPHARM Vaccine - 28 FEBRUARY 2021
The aim of this article is to identify the elements behind the country’s successful COVID-19 rollout as well as lessons and chal lenges derived from this process. The analysis is relevant to many countries today—as they keep searching for strategies to cope with the second year of the COVID-19 p...andemic and the challenge of implementing a large-scale vaccine rollout—and in the coming years—as new variants develop and unceertainty about the vaccination strategy increases.
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El presente protocolo de vacunación contra la COVID-19 para personas que padecen diabetes mellitus tipo 2 es de aplicación en las Instituciones Prestadoras de Servicios de Salud del Ministerio de Salud, a través de las Direcciones de Redes Integradas de Servicios de Salud y de los Gobiernos Regio...nales, a través de las Direcciones Regionales de Salud o Gerencias Regionales de Salud, EsSalud, Sanidad de las fuerzas armadas y policiales y las entidades privadas.
En el documento encontrarás información referida al flujo de atención (admisión, triaje, punto de vacunación, monitoreo y observación), consideraciones generales y específicas, entre otros.
Esta publicación pertenece al compendio Protocolos de vacunación contra la COVID-19
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Preliminary overview of refugees and migrants self-reported impact of COVID-19
The study surveyed over 30,000 refugees and migrants living in 170 countries. Many of the respondents had fled war or dire economic conditions in their home country only to be faced with the additional challenges posed b...y COVID-19. Travel restrictions including border closures, suspension of resettlement travel, and last-minute deportation left many stranded or forced to stay in cramped, makeshift shelters or detention centers. Amid these uncertain, precarious conditions, many migrants described either a lack of access to health services or a fear of seeking them out — even if they were experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.
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تحمل العبء الأكبر على كبار السن في الدول ذات الدخل 19تأثير جائحة الكوفيد-2020المتدني والمتوسط - رؤى من عام
The report shows that older people are not getting the healthcare treatments they desperately need. The COVID-1...9 response has disrupted services for non-communicable diseases such as cancer and diabetes, communicable diseases such as malaria, and much-needed services for mental health. Combined with a loss of income, many older people are unable to get the medicines they need.
A Summary is available in Russian and Arabic
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Definition and categorization of the time of vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Scientific report 8 February 2021
The role of community health workers in the vaccination against COVID-19: guide to support the implementation of the vaccination programme
Communication Resources Bank of the National Ministry of Health | Materials for Health Teams
Informationsseite des RKI rund um Impfen und COVID-19