enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Vaccine hesitancy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_hesitancy

    A protest against COVID-19 vaccination in London, United Kingdom. In mid-2020, surveys on whether people would be willing to take a potential COVID-19 vaccine estimated that 67% or 80% of people in the US would accept a new vaccination against COVID-19. [292] [293]

  3. COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic

    A COVID-19 vaccine is intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 . Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, an established body of knowledge existed about the structure and function of coronaviruses causing diseases like severe acute ...

  4. Vaccine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine

    After the December 2020 introduction of COVID vaccines in the United States, a partisan gap in death rates developed, indicating the effects of vaccine skepticism. [181] As of March 2024, more than 30 percent of Republicans had not received a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with less than 10 percent of Democrats. [181]

  5. COVID-19 vaccination in Malaysia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_in...

    The National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (Malay: Program Imunisasi COVID-19 Kebangsaan), abbreviated as NIP or PICK, was a national vaccination campaign implemented by the Malaysian government to curb the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to end the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia by achieving the highest possible immunisation ...

  6. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19...

    The COVID-19 lockdowns has widened the gender gap in education between females and males. The rapid spread of COVID-19 lockdowns forced many females into the traditional roles as caretakers. Common gender disparities that impact a female's education during the pandemic are finances enabling higher dropout rates, domestic violence, child ...

  7. Jonas Salk - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

    Jonas Edward Salk (/ s ɔː l k /; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.

  8. National Institutes of Health - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health

    The NIH partnered with Moderna in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop a vaccine. The final phase of testing began on July 27 with up to 30,000 volunteers assigned to one of two groups—one receiving the mRNA-1273 vaccine and the other receiving salt water injections—and continued until there had been approximately 100 cases of COVID ...

  9. Healthcare in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_United...

    Life expectancy fell again in 2021 to 76.4 years, which has been attributed to COVID-19 and rising death rates from suicide, drug overdoses and liver disease. [85] As of 2023, U.S. life expectancy has increased slightly following the COVID-19 pandemic, but still trails behind peer and rival countries including Canada, China and Germany. [86]