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How do we actually investigate rare COVID-19 vaccine side-effects?

  Picture: ShuttlestockInvestigations are under way to determine whether the deaths of two people in New South Wales who developed blood clots are linked to the...

Data suggest no increased risk of blood clots from the AstraZeneca vaccine. Australia shouldn’t pause its rollout

 Image: Remko de Waal/EPA/AAPIreland and the Netherlands have temporarily paused their rollouts of the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine, due to concerns about blood clots.The move follows reports from Norway over...

How do we know the COVID vaccine won’t have long-term side-effects?

 Picture: ShuttlestockAs Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout begins this week, many people still have questions about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, both in the short and...

Why telling stories could be a more powerful way of convincing some people to take a COVID vaccine than just the facts

 Picture: Ted S. Warren/AP/AAPScientists don’t know exactly what percentage of the population will need to get a COVID vaccine to achieve herd immunity. Some diseases, such...

What do we know about the Novavax and Pfizer COVID vaccines that Australia just signed up for?

Shutterstock The federal government’s announcement of agreements to supply vaccines from Novavax and Pfizer/BioNTech potentially increases the pool of COVID-19 vaccines Australians will be able to access. These two...

Children may need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 too. Here’s what we need to consider

Image: Shuttlestock An ideal COVID-19 vaccine would not only protect people from becoming ill, it would also stop the virus spreading through the population....

Russia’s coronavirus vaccine hasn’t been fully tested. Doling it out risks side effects and false protection

A scientist holding a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Russian Direct...
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Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.