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How could a COVID vaccine cause blood clots? Scientists race to investigate - Nature - 9 April 2021

Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccination - NEJM - 9 April 2021

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia after ChAdOx1 nCov-19 Vaccination - NEJM - 9 April 2021

News - Communicating the potential benefits and harms of the Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine - Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge 

Escaping Catch-22 — Overcoming Covid Vaccine Hesitancy - NEJM - 8 April 2021

Use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine: JCVI statement. Statement from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) on the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine - England. Department of Health and Social Care - 7 April 2021

Guidance produced from the Expert Haematology Panel (EHP) focussed on syndrome of Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia occurring after coronavirus Vaccination - British Society for Haematology - 3 Apr 2021

Diagnosis and Management of Vaccine-Related Thrombosis following AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccination: Guidance Statement from the Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis Research (GTH) - Hamostaseologie - 1 April 2021

Why is it so hard to investigate the rare side effects of COVID vaccines? - Nature - 1 April 2021

Assessment of protection against reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 among 4 million PCR-tested individuals in Denmark in 2020: a population-level observational study - Lancet - 27 March 2021

What scientists do and don’t know about the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID vaccine - Nature - 24 March 2021

SARS-CoV-2 Infection after Vaccination in Health Care Workers in California - NEJM - 23 March 2021

AZD1222 US Phase III trial met primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19 at interim analysis - AstraZeneca - 22 March 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines vs Variants - Determining How Much Immunity Is Enough - JAMA - 17 March 2021

Innovators target vaccines for variants and shortages in global South - Nature - 17 March 2021

CDC Interim Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People. An Important First Step - JAMA - 10 March 2021

COVID-19 Vaccine Combos Aim to Boost Immunity - The Scientist - 9 March 2021

Acute Allergic Reactions to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines. Research letter - JAMA - 8 March 2021

What Do Vaccine Efficacy Numbers Actually Mean? - New York Times - 3 March 2021

COVID vaccination studies: plan now to pool data, or be bogged down in confusion - Nature - 3 March 2021

Sex Differences in Immune Responses to Viral Infection - The Scientist - 1 Mar 2021

Q&A: New Trials Tackle COVID-19 Vaccines in Pregnancy - The Scientist - 25 February 2021

COVID-19 vaccine-associated anaphylaxis: A statement of the World Allergy Organization Anaphylaxis Committee - World Allergy Organ J - February 2021

Why COVID vaccines are so difficult to compare. Despite the widespread roll-out of several vaccines, it could be months before they can be ranked - Nature - 23 February 2021

Maintaining Safety with SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines - NEJM - 18 Feb 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines for Pregnant Moms May Protect Newborns - The Scientist - 17 February 2021

COVID vaccines and safety: what the research says - Nature - 16 Feb 2021

Escaping Catch-22 - Overcoming Covid Vaccine Hesitancy - NEJM - 12 Feb 2021

How ‘killer’ T cells could boost COVID immunity in face of new variants - Nature - 12 Feb 2021

Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Reduces Viral Load: Study - The Scientist - 10 Feb 2021

Antibody Status and Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers - JAMA - 11 Feb 2021

Variant-proof vaccines — invest now for the next pandemic - Nature - 8 Feb 2021

How were researchers able to develop COVID-19 vaccines so quickly? - University of Chicago News - 5 Feb 2021

Will Delaying Vaccine Doses Cause a Coronavirus Escape Mutant? - Scientist - 4 Feb 2021

A New Vaccine to Battle Covid-19. Editorial & Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine - NEJM - 4 February 2021

Strategies for Building COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence - National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine [US] - 3 February 2021

Nudging for other's sake: An ethical analysis of the legitimacy of nudging healthcare workers to accept influenza immunization - Bioethics - Jan 2021

Inside the B.1.1.7 Coronavirus Variant - NY Times - 18 Jan 2021