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AY.4 Delta sub-lineage now predominant in UK and Australia, rising in the US

A post on the AY.4 sub-lineage of the Delta Sars-Cov-2 variant. More...

August 29, 2021August 30, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Africa, America, Asia, Australasia, Australia, AY.4, B.1.617.2, B.1.617.2.4, Coronavirus, Delta-AY.4, Europe, Infection, Transmission, UK, USA

Boris Johnson ‘privately accepts’ up to 50,000 annual Covid deaths as an acceptable level

Downing Street has denied it has set any “acceptable level” of Covid deaths but one adviser, who has been close to the UK Government since coronavirus struck 18 months ago, told inews that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had privately accepted that there would be at least a further 30,000 deaths in the UK over the next year, and that the Prime Minister would “only consider imposing further restrictions if that figure looked like it could rise above 50,000”. More...

August 29, 2021August 29, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Children, Coronavirus, Deaths, England, Herd Immunity, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Long Covid, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales

Iceland opts for herd immunity through infection

Iceland has vaccinated 76% of its population, but for several months the majority of new Covid infections have been amongst the fully vaccinated. More...

August 28, 2021February 23, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, Delta, Herd Immunity, Iceland, Infection, Long Covid, Vaccine, Vaccine Breakthrough, Vaccine Waning

Britain surrenders to the coronavirus

“We can’t control the spread of the virus. The virus is doing what it’s doing and we have to react to that”. More...

August 27, 2021August 28, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Coronavirus, Deaths, England, Herd Immunity, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Long Covid, Mental Heath, Northern Ireland, Reinfection, Scotland, Superspreader events, Transmission, UK, Vaccine Breakthrough, Vaccine Waning, Wales

Large UK study confirms previous Covid-19 infection often outperforms vaccine induced immunity

NO, we are ABSOLUTELY NOT recommending you try to get infected with Covid-19! More...

August 25, 2021August 27, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Astrazeneca, Coronavirus, Europe, Infection, Moderna, Pfizer/Biontech, UK, Vaccine, Vaccine Breakthrough, Vaccine Waning

Vaccine waning studies show large declines in efficacy against infection for Covid-19 vaccines

A summary table of the studies that have assessed mRNA vaccine effectiveness (VE) for Delta infections, updated with reports from yesterday, overall in line with estimate ~50-60%; *does not pertain* to high VE for hospitalizations or deaths pic.twitter.com/7LxvLoelUI

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August 25, 2021June 30, 2024 Coronaheadsup.com Canada, Israel, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales

UK Covid app confirms vaccines are waning

Joinzoe: “We found that initial protection against infection a month after the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine was 88%, while after five to six months this fell to 74%. More...

August 25, 2021August 25, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Alpha, Astrazeneca, B.1.1.7, B.1.617.2, Coronavirus, Delta, England, Europe, Infection, Northern Ireland, Pfizer/Biontech, Reinfection, Scotland, Transmission, UK, Vaccine, Vaccine Breakthrough, Vaccine Waning, Variants, Wales

Children to spearhead Britain’s winter offensive against the coronavirus

The same UK politicians and scientists who have blundered from one disaster to the next in the Covid crisis have decided to reopen British schools in September 2021 with no mitigations in place and to let our children bear the brunt of the next brutal Covid wave alone. More...