What should we be doing before the next Covid surge? As we prepare to spend more time indoors this winter and kids return to school, we are likely to see another Covid-19 wave in Ireland Health • 08 Sep
Is it time for a new generation of Covid vaccines? Our current shots could soon be updated to target new variants rather than the ancestral strain Health • 06 Jul
How can we get more people to get booster shots? Here are 6 useful ways to motivate and enable people to get their vaccine boosters Vaccines • 26 Jan
Why Covid infections among the triple-vaxxed shouldn't alarm you Nobody has claimed that Covid vaccines provide immunity, but they have proven to be very good at preventing severe disease Vaccines • 06 Jan
Are mandatory Covid vaccinations a breach of human rights? Compulsory vaccination is not a new policy measure and has existed for centuries, yet Covid vaccines have faced much opposition law • 08 Dec 21
What we know so far about Covid vaccines for children 'You can't get away from the fact that they are an unvaccinated cohort and the case numbers in children are so high' Health • 26 Nov 21
How distrust of the media undermined Covid-19 recovery in Greece The pandemic has highlighted the importance of trust in institutions for effective governance, especially in times of crisis Media • 20 Oct 21
Why are Ireland's Covid numbers still so high? We may have one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, but the number of cases remains stubbornly high Ireland • 14 Oct 21
Is vaccine hoarding a kind of genocide? The preventable death of many people in poorer countries is a foreseeable side-effect of hoarding by the few in rich nations Philosophy • 06 Oct 21
4 factors that increase your risk of Covid-19 after vaccination Research shows one in 500 people gets Covid once fully vaccinated, yet not all of us face the same risk Health • 27 Sep 21
Why don't we have vaccines against diseases caused by parasites? Scientists face a number of hurdles and drawbacks when it comes to developing effective vaccines for diseases like malaria Health • 20 Aug 21
All we know so far about Covid-19 vaccine booster shots Time, data and new variants will have a heavy influence on whether Covid vaccine boosters are required in the future Vaccines • 12 Jul 21
68% of under 40s likely to say yes to AstraZeneca or Janssen jab A new survey has also found that restrictions on the unvaccinated may reduce take-up among a significant minority of people Vaccines • 13 Jul 21
Why some fully vaccinated people still get infected The small risk of breakthrough infections should not deter us from using the current Covid jabs Health • 19 May 21
Why are young women hesitant about getting the Covid vaccine? Research into vaccine hesitancy found that peer social influences play a key role in decision making Health • 13 May 21
What's the story with vaccine side effects? Why some of us don't experience side effects such as sore arms or headaches from the Covid vaccine and why that's not a problem Vaccines • 10 May 21
The ethical issues concerning vaccine refusal One of the most challenging ethical issues concerns returning to normality in a manner that protects public health without jeopardising the personal freedoms of anti-vaxxers … Vaccines • 20 Apr 21
How to make sense of reports on Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness It's hard for even experienced clinicians and scientists to keep up with the flood of complex data, reports, studies and papers Vaccines • 05 Mar 21
All you need to know about the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine A guide to the vaccine which many claim will be a gamechanger in the fight against Covid-19 Vaccines • 01 Mar 21
Why global access to vaccines is essential to end the pandemic Failure to provide global access to Covid vaccines risks fresh outbreaks through travel or the emergence of new variants Vaccines • 08 Feb 21
What's actually in the Covid-19 vaccine? Here's a guide to the full list of ingredients in the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and what each one does Vaccines • 11 Jan 21
Why the Oxford Covid vaccine is a global game changer The Oxford vaccine has scored highly for safety, storage and price Coronavirus • 25 Nov 20
What happens if we can't produce a viable Covid-19 vaccine? Without a vaccine, the virus could become permanently present in the population like the coronaviruses that cause colds Coronavirus • 18 Aug 20
The inside story of the 'highly promising' Covid-19 vaccine How the new coronavirus vaccine was developed over the last few months at the University of Oxford - and how it works Coronavirus • 22 Jul 20
The race for a Covid-19 vaccine What's going on with the search for a vaccine - and what does Ireland need to do to increase its research in this area? Coronavirus • 06 Jul 20
