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Omicron specific booster no better than standard Moderna booster when tested on macaque monkeys
“Omicron boost may not provide greater immunity or protection compared to a boost with the current mRNA-1273 vaccine”
A study in monkeys showed an omicron-specific booster was not significantly different from Moderna’s conventional booster. More...
Vitamin D deficiency associated with increased Covid-19 severity and mortality
Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, pre-infection deficiency of vitamin D was associated with increased disease severity and mortality. More...
Denmark: Omicron BA.2 predicted to cause 100% of infections within 10 days
Denmark’s Statens Serum Institut have published a report on the growth of the BA.2 sub-lineage. More...
SARS-CoV-2 antibodies found in the unvaccinated after 20 months
Research into the durability of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in unvaccinated people has found that they may last for twenty months or more following infection. More...
UK: Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for week 5, 2022
The latest vaccine surveillance report by the UK Health and Security Agency giving figures for Covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for the period up to week 5, 2022. More...
Preprint: Increasing frequency of cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages in New York sewers
Here we report detecting increasing frequencies of novel cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages not recognized in GISAID’s EpiCoV database. More...
UK ONS: 2% of the British population have Long Covid
An estimated 1.3 million people living in private households in the UK (2.1% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 2 January 2022. More...
Preprint: Omicron a recombination between BA.1 and B.35 lineages
Here, we show that Omicron lineage SARS-CoV-2 is characterized by the feature of chimera. More...
Research: Pathological sequelae of long-haul COVID
A shocking report on the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the human body. More...
UK government fesses up to hundreds more Covid-19 deaths
The UK has confessed that there have been hundreds more Covid-19 deaths in Britain during the pandemic than they had previously admitted to, and they have added 534 deaths to the UK Covid-19 dashboard after reviewing reinfections. More...