All Posts: vaccination

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COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Clinics Promote Public Health, Interprofessional Education

December 3, 2021

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Georgetown’s Jesse Goodman Leads Vaccine Analysis Team

(May 7, 2021) — If you’ve read news stories this past year about COVID-19 vaccines in The Washington Post or The New York Times, for example, or have heard stories on NPR,…

May 7, 2021

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Vaccines Alone May Not Be Enough to End Pandemic

WASHINGTON (March 18, 2021) — Even as vaccines are becoming more readily available in the U.S., protecting against the asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic spread of the virus -…

March 18, 2021

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Answering the Call: Georgetown Coordinates COVID-19 High-Capacity Vaccination Site

March 4, 2021

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Georgetown Professor Comments on FDA Authorization of Vaccine to Prevent COVID-19

WASHINGTON (December 11, 2020) — This evening, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine.…

December 11, 2020

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Answering 7 Key Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines

WASHINGTON (October 16, 2020) — When a vaccine to reduce the risk of getting COVID-19 becomes available, clinicians will be critical in helping people make decisions about…

October 16, 2020

News Release

From Immunity Passports to Vaccination Certificates for COVID-19: Scientific, Equitable and Legal Challenges

WASHINGTON (May 4, 2020) — As governments from countries including the U.S., Germany, Italy and the U.K. explore the possibility of issuing so-called “immunity passports,”…

May 4, 2020

GUMC Stories

HPV News Provides a Shot in the Arm

(July 10, 2013) — June 19 was a very good day for Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, a pathologist at Georgetown University Medical Center who is known worldwide as a co-inventor of…

July 10, 2013