Questions and Answers about the COVID-19 Vaccine

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This page offers both the general public and health practitioners answers to basic questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. The questions include:

  • Is there a vaccine for COVID-19?
  • When will COVID-19 vaccines be ready for distribution?
  • How likely is it that safe, effective vaccines for COVID-19 will be developed?
  • How quickly could COVID-19 vaccines stop the pandemic?
  • What types of COVID-19 vaccines are being developed? How would they work?
  • How will we know if COVID-19 vaccines are safe?
  • Will other vaccines help protect me from COVID-19?
  • Will COVID-19 vaccines provide long-term protection?

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    How do Vaccines Work?

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    This page explains the body’s response to pathogens, how vaccines help, and herd immunity.

    Germs are all around us, both in our environment and in our bodies. When a person is susceptible and they encounter a harmful organism, it can lead to disease and death.

    The body has many ways of defending itself against pathogens (disease-causing organisms). Skin, mucus, and cilia (microscopic hairs that move debris away from the lungs) all work as physical barriers to prevent pathogens from entering the body in the first place.

    When a pathogen does infect the body, our body’s defences, called the immune system, are triggered and the pathogen is attacked and destroyed or overcome.

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      An Approach for Monitoring and Evaluating Community Mitigation Strategies for COVID-19

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      This document describes the approach of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s approach to evaluating community mitigation strategies and provides overarching considerations to support state, territorial, or local health departments, tribal health organizations, or others in monitoring and evaluating COVID-19 community mitigation strategies, including a logic model, suggested monitoring and evaluation questions, and potential data sources.

      The approach considers outcomes that minimize COVID-19 morbidity and associated mortality, effects of community mitigation strategies on long-standing health disparities and social determinants of health, and how communities thrive socially, emotionally, and economically.

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        Adapting Evaluation Designs in Times of COVID-19 (Coronavirus): Four Questions to Guide Decisions

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        This is a framework organized around four questions to address the ethical, conceptual, and methodological challenges that are affecting programmatic evaluation work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

        The questions are:

        • Should you adapt your evaluation questions and scope?
        • Can you improve what remains feasible?
        • Can you find ways around what is infeasible?
        • Can you tap into alternative sources of evidence?

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          COVID-19, Breastfeeding, Infant Feeding, and Breast Milk

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          This repository is compiled by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and provides an overview of what peer-reviewed journal articles currently state on COVID-19, breastfeeding, infant feeding, and breast milk.

          As the pandemic is ongoing, more and more research results are published. With this service, the creators aim to provide the user with a snapshot of what is published with updates every two weeks.

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            Questions and Answers: Adolescents, Youth and COVID-19

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            These questions and answers were developed by the World Health Organization, UNESCO, UNFPA and UNICEF.

            Questions include:

            • Can adolescents catch COVID-19?
            • Can adolescents spread COVID-19 to other people even if they have mild or no symptoms?
            • Since there are few known cases of adolescents getting seriously ill with COVID-19, should I go to a health facility if I develop symptoms of the disease?
            • I am on medication for a chronic health condition. Should I change anything?
            • I am bored staying home. Since I am very unlikely to get severely ill even if I was to get COVID-19, why is it important that I follow the guidelines to prevent transmission such as keeping physical distance from other people?
            • I am feeling really anxious about COVID-19 and its impact on my life. What should I do?

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              International COVID-19 Awareness and Responses Evaluation Study

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              Understanding people’s concerns about COVID-19, their perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes about public health policies, and how they impact what people are (and are not) willing to do will be important for informing policy strategy and how they are communicated, to ensure the best health and economic outcomes.

              The iCARE Study will capture key data on people’s awareness, attitudes, and behaviors as they relate to the COVID-19 policies, as well as the impacts that COVID-19 is having on people’s physical and mental health, financial situation, and quality of life.

              Data from approximately 250,000 people around the world will be analyzed to understand what government policies are (and are not) influencing behavior and outcomes, and in whom these policies are most or least effective. This data can be used to inform governments on the efficacy of policy measures on both people’s behavior, and on key health and quality of life outcomes.

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                Classroom Precautions During COVID-19

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                This article aims to support teachers with information and tips on various topics.

                These include:

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                  The COVID Tracking Project

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                  The COVID Tracking Project is a volunteer organization launched from The Atlantic and dedicated to collecting and publishing the data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.

                  Every day, their teams collect data on COVID-19 testing and patient outcomes from all 50 states, 5 territories, and the District of Columbia. The dataset is currently in use by national and local news organizations across the United States and by research projects and agencies worldwide. Their data API (which allows sites and apps to import our dataset automatically) receives about two million requests per day.

                  On April 15, they launched the COVID Racial Data Tracker, a partnership between the COVID Tracking Project and the Center for Antiracist Research that collects, publishes, and analyzes racial data on the pandemic within the United States.

                  Source: The COVID Tracking Project

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                    How to Report Misinformation Online

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                    As the world responds to the  COVID-19 pandemic, we all face the challenge of an overabundance of information related to the virus. Some of this information may be false and potentially harmful.

                    Inaccurate information spreads widely and at speed, making it more difficult for the public to identify verified facts and advice  from trusted sources, such as  their local health authority or WHO. However, everyone can help to stop the spread. If you see content online that you believe to be false or misleading, you can report it to the hosting social media platform.

                    This page offers links to various social media platforms’ sites for reporting inappropriate content.

                    Source: How to Report Misinformation Online

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