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The Sabin Vaccine Institute connects journalists around the world to expert sources and resources on vaccines and immunization. Explore articles below in several languages written by journalists who have engaged with Sabin’s Immunization Advocates program. To find expert sources and resources, explore our journalist resource hub.

SCORES OF YOUNG PEOPLE SHOW UP FOR VACCINES, BUT NOT YET QUALIFIED – ISANELLA PATOIR (ENGLISH)

(04.07.2021) Former Minister of Health, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, says thousands of young people are being turned away from COVID-19 vaccination sites daily because they do not meet the criteria to take the vaccine.

ST VINCENT'S HEALTH MINISTER SAYS THE VACCINE IS FREE AND SAFE TO TAKE – ERNESTO COOKE (ENGLISH)

(04.07.2021) St Vincent’s Health Minister St Clair Prince says the government is delighted to be the recipient of another batch of COVID -19 vaccines.Prince said the government believes, as the medical experts, that vaccines are a way to end the pandemic.

NO ACCESS TO CLASSROOMS FOR TEACHERS WHO ARE NOT TESTED OR VACCINATED – ERNESTO COOKE (ENGLISH)

(04.07.2021) Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said Teachers are front line workers, and the government would love to see them get tested or vaccinated. Gonsalves, on Wednesday evening, said on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th, they are asking teachers across SVG or the areas they are from to go to the nearest clinic and take the test.

ST VINCENT EXPECTED TO RECEIVE 24,000 ASTRAZENECA VACCINES – ERNESTO COOKE (ENGLISH)

(04.06.2021) Over 324,000 doses of Oxford Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccines are expected to be delivered to nine Caribbean countries this week including St Vincent and the Grenadines. A list issued by PAHO shows that St Vincent and the Grenadines is expected to receive 24,000 vaccines on Tuesday 6th April 2021.

ПАНДЕМИЯ И ЖУРНАЛИСТЫ – Елена Степанова (РУССКИЙ)

(04.04.2021) Цикл вебинаров на тему: «Освещение вопросов иммунизации», в котором я имела честь принять участие, помог мне не только в обосновании темы новых интересных и полезных материалов, но и заставил по другому, по новому взглянуть на вопросы вакцинации в современном мире.

NOT TAKING THE VACCINE: THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO BE TESTED REGULARLY – ERNESTO COOKE (ENGLISH)

(03.25.2021) Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves is urging Vincentians once again to take the vaccine in an effort to protect themselves against the severity of COVID-19. Gonsalves speaking on the radio today, said that he does not want St Vincent to be left behind as other Caribbean countries are surging ahead with inoculation of their population.

OVER 9000 VINCENTIANS RECEIVE THEIR FIRST DOSE OF ASTRAZENECA – ERNESTO COOKE (ENGLISH)

(03.21.2021) St Vincent and the Grenadines continues its vaccination drive to reach population immunity. In its latest report, St. Vincent and the Grenadines recorded two (2) new positive cases from one hundred and forty-two (142) samples received and processed on Friday, March 19, 2021.

IS ST VINCENT MOVING TO MANDATORY VACCINATION? – ERNESTO COOKE (ENGLISH)

(03.15.2021) As countries across the Caribbean move ahead with vaccination programs, SVG is lagging. The country which received over 40,000 Astra Zeneca vaccine has only inoculated over 8000 persons to date.

ONE YEAR AFTER GUYANA'S FIRST COVID CASE... – ISANELLA PATOIR (ENGLISH)

(03.11.2021) March 11, 2021, marks exactly one year since Guyana recorded its first COVID-19 case and death. To date, 205 persons have died of the 8,928 who have tested positive while a total of 8, 211 have recovered. With a rush of vaccines into the country now, could this be the beginning of the end of the pandemic here?

RETRASOS EN LA COMPRA DE VACUNAS MANTIENEN A HONDURAS EXPUESTA A MÁS CONTAGIOS Y POSIBLES ACTOS DE CORRUPCIÓN – LINDA ORDÓÑEZ (ESPAÑOL)

(03.10.2021) Después de los retrasos en la adquisición de vacunas contra la COVID-19 y en medio de críticas por el manejo de la pandemia, Honduras logró un acuerdo con Rusia para la compra de la Sputnik V, pero las dudas persisten en torno a la transparencia del proceso.

ვაქცინა - გადარჩენის გზა – ქეთი თუთბერიძე (ქართველი)

(02.28.2021) ვაქცინაცია მოსახლეობის სიკვდილიანობის შემცირების ერთ-ერთი მთავარი გზაა. მიუხედავად ვაქცინის აუცილებლობისა, მსოფლიოში „ანტივაქსერების“ რაოდენობა დიდია. რა პრინციპს ეყრდნობიან ვაქცინის მოწინააღმდეგეები?

VINCIES COULD BE COMPENSATED IF INJURED BY COVID-19 VACCINE – ERNESTO COOKE (ENGLISH)

(02.25.2021) St Vincent and the Grenadines are among 92 low- and middle-income countries which will benefit from the first and only global vaccine injury compensation mechanism. The vaccine injury compensation mechanism operating on an international scale will offer eligible individuals in AMC-eligible countries and economies a fast, fair, robust and transparent process to receive compensation for rare but serious adverse events associated with COVAX-distributed vaccines until 30 June 2022.

8 DEATHS, 905 RECOVERIES, 1526 CASES RECORDED, 1330 VACCINATED – ERNESTO COOKE (ENGLISH)

(02.25.2021) 1330 persons in St Vincent and the Grenadines have been vaccinated since the COVID-19 vaccination programme begun. On Thursday afternoon, health officials in Kingstown said that since the roll out 1325 persons received their first dose, five their second.

Azərbaycanda peyvəndləmə ilə bağlı tərəddüdlərin SƏBƏBİ – Mütəxəssislər DANIŞIR – İsmayıl Fətəliyev (AZƏRBAYCAN)

(02.25.2021) Hazırda xəstəliklə bağlı vəziyyət nəzarət altında olsa da, virusa tam qalib gəlmək üçün növbəti mərhələdə peyvəndləməyə qarşı tərəddüd hissini boğmaq və kollektiv immunitet qazanmaq üçün vaksinasiya olunmaqdır.

МИФЫ И ФАКТЫ О ПРИВИВКАХ. ЧТО ОБ ЭТОМ ЗНАЕТ МОЛОДЕЖЬ? – Нелли Стратулат (РУССКИЙ)

(02.22.2021) Тема вакцинации сейчас на пике своей популярности. Мы решили узнать, как обстоит дело с доверием к вакцинам среди городской молодёжи Молдовы, возраста до 28 лет: какое отношение к вакцинах в целом, доверяют ли вакцине от коронавируса и где информируются на тему вакцинации.

ST VINCENT'S OPPOSITION LEADER, WIFE AND SON TAKE THE C-19 JAB – ERNESTO COOKE (ENGLISH)

(02.14.2021) Leader of the Opposition in St Vincent Dr Hon. Godwin Friday, his wife, Mrs Ave Friday, and son, Nicholas Friday, today received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Covishield (Indian) AstraZeneca.

OVER 60 PERSONS IN SVG RECEIVED ASTRAZENECA VACCINE ON SUNDAY – ERNESTO COOKE (ENGLISH)

(02.14.2021) The SVG Health Facebook page reports that some (83) eighty three persons were vaccinated in St Vincent and the Grenadines on Sunday. The administering of the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Covishield (Indian) AstraZeneca took place at five health facilities across the island.

HONDORAS ESPERA LA LLEGADA DE VACUNAS CONTRA LA COVID-19: ¿ALCANZARÁN PARA TODA LA POBACIÓN? – LINDA ORDÓÑEZ (ESPAÑOL)

(02.12.2021) Honduras ha sido uno de los países seleccionados para recibir la donación de vacunas —por parte de la alianza Gavi— para un 20 % de la población.

LAS VACUNAS EN LATINOAMÉRICA, ENTRE MENTIRAS Y ESPERANZA – FABIOLA CHAMBI (ESPAÑOL)

(02.11.2021) Con gritos de ¡libertad, libertad, libertad! un grupo autodenominado Acción Humanista Revolucionaria quemó cubrebocas en una plaza de Cochabamba, Bolivia, a inicios de enero. Afirmaban que como hijos de Dios eran ”resistentes a cualquier mal” y que buscaban con ese acto la “emancipación hacia el aire puro y su rechazo al nuevo orden mundial”. Algunos espectadores reaccionaban escandalizados; otros, en cambio, murmuraban: ¿será cierto?

VACUNACIÓN PARA FRENAR PANDEMIA ES UNA "DOSIS DE ESPERANZA" PARA BOLIVIA – FABIOLA CHAMBI (ESPAÑOL)

(02.08.2021) Más de 1.600 dosis de la vacuna rusa Sputnik V fueron administradas al personal de salud en los nueve departamentos de Bolivia en la primera fase de la inmunización. Esta vacuna debe ser aplicada en dos dosis con diferencia de 21 días.

Пандемия и ее влияние на вакцинацию против гриппа – Нина Хеладзе, Сона Мартиросян, Елена Степанова (РУССКИЙ)

(02.04.2021) Пандемия и ее влияние на вакцинацию против гриппа По официальным источником, в стране в 2020-2021 годах государством было закуплено 235 000 доз вакцин против сезонного гриппа. По информации мин здравоохранения Грузии, 215 000 единиц из них уже использованы. К этой цифре стоит добавить 40 000 вакцин, которые были закуплены и реализованы частным сектором. Это почти вдвое больше, чем в прошлом сезоне. В 2019-2020 годах, в целом было использована почти 130 000 доз вакцин против сезонного гриппа.

Сезонный грипп в пандемию. Нужна ли прививка? – Нина Хеладзе, Сона Мартиросян, Елена Степанова (РУССКИЙ)

(02.04.2021) Специалисты-медики единодушно говорят, что прививка против сезонного гриппа приобрела особо важное значение в период пандемии COVID-19. Мы, журналисты из Армении, Грузии и Молдовы, решили разобраться, насколько люди и власти это понимают, и самое главное, как они действуют. Попробуем сделать несколько общих выводов.

COVAX: SÓLO 100 MIL VACUNAS LLEGARÁN A BOLIVIA ENTRE FEBRERO Y MARZO – GERALDINE CORRALES ARANDIA (ESPAÑOL)

(02.04.2021) El director del mecanismo Covax a cargo de Latinoamérica, Santiago Cornejo, explicó que en la comunicación que se hizo llegar a Bolivia respecto a las vacunas de AstraZeneca/Oxford y Pfizer está que éstas llegarán en el primer semestre de este año.

REPRESENTANTE DE COVAX: BOLIVIA RECIBIRÁ CASI 100 MIL VACUNAS PFIZER HASTA MARZO (ESPAÑOL)

(02.04.2021) Santiago Cornejo, ejecutivo de Covax para América Latina, informó ayer que otras 900 mil vacunas desarrolladas por AstraZeneca y Oxford estarán hasta finales del primer semestre de este año.

GOBIERNO GESTIONA COMPRA DE VACUNAS RUSAS Y CHINAS (ESPAÑOL)

(02.03.2021) Ejecutive de Covax dijo que Honduras quedó fuera para recibir lote pequeño de inoculadores de Pfizer; además, consiera que las de AstraZeneca llegarán al país hasta en marzo.

VACUNAS, MENTIRAS Y ESPERANZA – FABIOLA CHAMBI (ESPAÑOL)

La vacunación en América Latina no solo enfrenta dificultades logísticas, económicas y sociales. También el escepticismo de una parte importante de la gente que, expuesta a la desinformación, ve en el secretismo de las negociaciones una razón más para desconfiar.

гриппа нет. как ковид избавил молдову от сезонного гриппа – ЕЛЕНА СТЕПАНОВА (РУССКИЙ)

(01.28.2021) В сезоне 2020-2021 в Молдове, включая Приднестровье, пока не выявили ни одного случая заражения сезонным гриппом. Хотя в предыдущем сезоне — с октября 2019 по май 2020 года — грипп обнаружили у 3600 человек. У такой статистики одна причина: пандемия COVID-19. Именно из-за нее люди начали носить маски в общественных местах, мыть чаще руки и меньше контактировать друг с другом. И грипп отступил. Однако специалисты призывают не расслабляться и сделать от гриппа прививку.

SEASONAL FLU VACCINE CATCHES ON IN ARMENIA - MOSTLY AMONGST MEDICAL WORKERS – SONA MARTIROSYAN (ENGLISH)

(01.27.2021) It is already the 11th year that seasonal vaccination against influenza has been carried out in Armenia. Prior to that, the country did not have a national influenza strategy. Residents themselves have largely not been interested and even avoided vaccination. But in 2020, even before the start of the active phase of seasonal influenza, half of the entire batch of vaccines imported for the year had already been used up in the country.

რა უნდა ვიცოდეთ კორონავირუსის ვაქცინების შესახებ – ექსკლუზიური ინტერვიუ SABIN VACCINE INSTITUTE-ის გლობალური იმუნიზაციის პრეზიდენტთან – ქეთი თუთბერიძე (ქართული)

(01.17.2021) როგორ მუშაობს ინფორმაციული რნმ-ის ვაქცინა, რომელსაც ვაქცინოლოგიის ახალ ეპოქას უწოდებენ, როგორ უნდა უზრუნველყოს სახელმწიფომ მასობრივი იმუნიზაცია, რამდენად მნიშვნელოვანია უნივერსალური ვაქცინის შექმნა პანდემიების შესაჩერებლად და რას მოიაზრებს ფრაზა „ვირუსთან თანაცხოვრება“, – ამ ძირითად საკითხებზე საუბრობს ამერიკული ინსტიტუტის, Sabin Vaccine Institute-ის გლობალური იმუნიზაციის პრეზიდენტი ბრიუს გელინი, რომელთანაც ექსკლუზიური ინტერვიუ პირველი არხის ანალიტიკურმა საკვირაო გადაცემა „ახალმა კვირამ“ ჩაწერა.

ინტერვიუ საბინის ვაქცინის ინსტიტუტის პრეზიდენტთან – ქეთი თუთბერიძე (ქართველი)

(01.17.2021) პასუხი ყველა იმ კითხვაზე, რომელიც კოვიდ-19-ის ვაქცინაციასთან დაკავშირებით გაქვთ. როგორ აფასებს ბრიუს გელინი ვაქცინებს, რომლებიც საქართველოში შემოვა, რეალურად რამდენ ხანი დასჭირდა ვაქცინის შექმნას და ახასიათებს თუ არა მას განსაკუთრებული გვერდითი მოვლენები?

ALUMINUM LEVELS IN VACCINES FOR INFANTS ARE SAFE – MARISHA GOLDHAMER (ENGLISH)

(11.24.2020) Instagram and Facebook posts claim that the Pediarix vaccine, which protects against polio and other diseases, injects an unsafe amount of aluminum into infants. The claim is false; Pediarix was tested for safety and has been approved for use since 2002, aluminum increases the immune response to the vaccine, and the amount contained in a dose is less than that ingested by infants via breastmilk or formula.

PENN MED EXPERTS WARN AGAINST COMPARING COVID-19 VACCINE TO 1976 SWINE FLU VACCINE DISASTER – ISABELLA SCHLACT (ENGLISH)

(09.09.2020) With the Food and Drug Administration’s recent announcement that it might authorize a vaccine for emergency use before Election Day, some experts are comparing Operation Warp Speed – the United States’ coronavirus vaccine effort – to the 1976 swine flu vaccine disaster, where the government quickly released a vaccine to the public that caused serious side effects in some recipients. But vaccine inventors from the Perelman School of Medicine say making the comparison is not that simple because the conditions in both scenarios are very different.