Will NIH Learn from Myriad when Settling Its mRNA Inventorship Dispute with Moderna?
The NIH, which funded much of Moderna’s research on the COVID-19 vaccine, should be assertive in exerting control over the results of this research.
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Read more: Promote Trust, Avoid Fraud: Lessons in Public Health Messaging from the Booster Roll Out Promote Trust, Avoid Fraud: Lessons in Public Health Messaging from the Booster Roll Out
The discrepancy between past booster messaging and the current, broad recommendation has spawned public health communications problems.
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Read more: Causes of COVID Vaccine Hesitancy Causes of COVID Vaccine Hesitancy
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is further exacerbated by waves of misinformation promulgated on social media.
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Read more: Decolonizing the Pandemic Treaty Through Vaccine Equity Decolonizing the Pandemic Treaty Through Vaccine Equity
Putting vaccine equity at the center of a pandemic treaty will already be a huge step towards global health’s decolonization.
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Read more: The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good
The pandemic has laid bare the lack of regulation for the sharing of intellectual property needed for an effective and equitable response.
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Read more: Promoting Vaccine Equity Promoting Vaccine Equity
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief longstanding equity problems surrounding the allocation of newly developed vaccines.
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Read more: Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited? Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited?
We think that off-label pediatric administration of approved COVID-19 vaccines should be left to individual risk-benefit judgments.
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Read more: What’s the Law on Vaccine Exemptions? A Religious Liberty Expert Explains What’s the Law on Vaccine Exemptions? A Religious Liberty Expert Explains
The legal basis of Americans’ supposed right to a religious exemption to vaccination is less clear than such policies’ popularity would suggest.
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Read more: Preventing Misuse of COVID-19 Vaccine Medical Exemptions Preventing Misuse of COVID-19 Vaccine Medical Exemptions
Entities imposing COVID-19 vaccination mandates can take simple but significant steps to counter misuse of medical exemptions.
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Read more: Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic
Activists in the access-to-medicines movement have mobilized to combat the threat of vaccine/therapeutic apartheid during the COVID-19 pandemic.