Once vaccines are deployed widely, we turn to a range of vaccine safety monitoring systems that can assess adverse events in huge numbers of people. It has the capacity to look at all Covid vaccines being used across these populations. Photo / APThere have been twice as many doses of Covid vaccine administered around the world than there have been Covid cases, around 200 million. Since 1998 she has been involved in immunisation-related research in New Zealand, particularly on vaccine safety and effectiveness. She is co-leader of the Global Vaccine Data Network, a multinational consortium dedicated to collaboration in vaccine safety studies, and was previously the chair of the World Health Organisation Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS)

Source: New Zealand Herald February 17, 2021 23:15 UTC