This study evaluates the extent to which COVID-19 vaccination affects population mental health. Exploiting within-state and within-survey week variation in number fully vaccinated per 10 million people, I uncover favorable effects of on individuals’ psychological well-being. Particularly, a 100% increase people makes individuals 0.24, 0.23, 0.12, 0.14 percentage points less likely experience an...

Previous studies have attempted to characterize the antibody response of individuals SARS-CoV-2 virus on a linear peptide level by utilizing microarrays. These helped identify epitopes that potential be used for diagnostic tests infected individuals. The immunological responses who received two most popular vaccines available in US, Moderna mRNA-1273 or Pfizer BNT162b2 mRNA vaccines, not been c...

In this work we consider a model of epidemic spreading coupled with an opinion dynamics in a fully-connected population. Regarding the opinion dynamics, the individuals may be in two distinct states, namely in favor or against a vaccination campaign. Individuals against the vaccination follow a standard SIS model, whereas the pro-vaccine individuals can also be in a third compartment, namely Va...

Increasing numbers of human cowpox virus infections that are being observed and that particularly affect young non-vaccinated persons have renewed interest in this zoonotic disease. Usually causing a self-limiting local infection, human cowpox can in fact be fatal for immunocompromised individuals. Conventional smallpox vaccination presumably protects an individual from infections with other Or...

The 50% reduced overall mortality previously associated with influenza vaccination among the elderly was based on studies neither fully taking into account systematic differences between individuals who accept or decline vaccination nor encompassing the entire general population. A population-based prospective cohort study was performed in Stockholm County (Sweden), including all persons aged >...

Breast cancer is immunogenic and proteins expressed in breast cancer stimulate both an antibody and a T-cell immune response. Cancer related proteins that are aberrant enough to trigger early immune recognition might be ideal targets for a vaccine aimed at preventing the development of breast cancer. Antigen discovery has focused on the identification of immunogenic proteins in tumor bearing in...