Tag: epidemics

What kind of side effects do people really get from the COVID-19 vaccine? Here’s how the Norwegian Medicines Agency is answering this question

“Lots of people are being given vaccines over a very short period, so it’s important to monitor them and follow what’s happening,” says Gunnar Fløan Rimul from the Norwegian Medicines Agency.

Visiting children who were quarantined in hospital over a hundred years ago

For infection control reasons, family members were only allowed to visit their children and husbands through windows at Ullevål hospital. The state had the prerogative to forcibly admit people with infectious diseases.

Promising treatments for COVID-19 were reported early on. So why haven’t there been bigger breakthroughs?

The whole world is looking for solutions. But while vaccine researchers seem to be storming ahead, it’s been much more chaotic for researchers studying COVID-19 treatments.

The story of when Norway ran out of coronavirus tests, and a university started a factory to make them

The Nanoparticles had been under development for several years. The bureaucracy was on speed. The researchers were given everything they needed. And then they started a factory.

We will have pandemics every ten years, Norway’s Minister of Health told a national newspaper. Is that right?

We've taken a closer look at Minister of Health and Care Services Bent Høie’s assertion.

Too many taking flu vaccine?

Health personnel and other hardy souls risk lower resistance to future pandemics if they vaccinate themselves for seasonal influenza year after year.