Anne Moore
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Should we just go ahead and give the AstraZeneca vaccine to older people?
- Health
- February 12, 2021, 01:00
Older people, anxiously waiting for a Covid-19 vaccination, could be forgiven for feeling confused about the conflicting guidance on vaccines, especia(...)

Q&A: Can I still pass Covid on after I’ve been vaccinated?
- Health & Family
- January 19, 2021, 06:01
The World Health Organisation estimates that vaccines prevented at least 10 million deaths between 2010 and 2015. “Many millions more lives were (...)

Immunologist rejects idea Covid-19 vaccines were approved too fast
- Science
- January 6, 2021, 19:28
KEVIN O’SULLIVAN Environment & Science Editor Any notion that new Covid-19 vaccines are being rolled out across the world too quickly, and witho(...)

New coronavirus variant likely circulating in Republic, experts say
- Health
- December 21, 2020, 18:58
The mutant variant of Covid-19 that has surfaced in the UK is likely to be shown to be circulating in the Republic in coming days, according to Irish (...)

New coronavirus strain: What is it and should we be worried?
- Health
- December 20, 2020, 20:46
A new, more infectious strain of coronavirus reported in parts of Britain has led to the Government and other countries including Germany and Italy to(...)

Covid-19 vaccines: Questions about the unknown
- Health
- December 3, 2020, 19:18
There are many unknowns when it comes to Covid-19 vaccines, especially on timing , dosage and long-term protection. Tit-for-tat squabbles over who h(...)

Irish designer of Oxford vaccine: ‘I’ve never worked so hard in my life’
- Health & Pharma
- November 23, 2020, 12:52
When Irish scientist Prof Tess (Teresa) Lambe heard the interim results of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine trials at the weekend, she almost b(...)

Covid-19 vaccines: All we know so far and the challenges ahead
- Health
- November 20, 2020, 20:00
The northern hemisphere faces a bleak winter of rising Covid-19 cases, but signals that two rapidly engineered vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna work on (...)

Coronavirus vaccine: ‘By next summer, Covid will be close to a bad memory’
- Health & Family
- November 14, 2020, 06:00
The daily toll of new infections. The number of hospitalisations. The numbers in ICU. The R-0 number. The cases per 100,000 people. For more than eigh(...)

‘Stick your vaccine up your arse’ – the Covid-19 vaccine, the science and the sceptics
- Health & Family
- October 17, 2020, 06:00
Last Wednesday evening, shortly after announcing yet another round of restrictions, effectively cancelling Halloween and raising a big question mark o(...)