Category: Infection
Dr John Campbell: Pause the mRNA Covid vaccines
Dr John Campbell, one of Youtube’s most popular presenters, has called for a pause in the administration of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. More...
XBB.1.5 has a much higher hACE2 binding affinity than XBB.1
A new Twitter thread by Chinese researcher Yunlong Richard Cao about XBB.1.5 seems to confirm some of the anecdotal data collected recently about this hypertransmissable subvariant. More...
Covid testing reimposed at US borders for China, Hong Kong and Macau *4 Updates*
The United States has announced today that it is reimposing Covid border controls for visitors from China, Hong Kong and Macau. More...
Japan: A new pandemic record for Covid-19 deaths *1 Update*
A new daily record for Covid-19 deaths has been set in Japan, and the link between deaths and cases appears to be breaking too. More...
Around 19 million US adults have Long COVID
CIDRAP are reporting that City University of New York researchers estimate that 7.3% of US adult COVID-19 survivors have persistent symptoms – that’s almost 19 million Americans. More...
It’s Britain’s third-largest Covid wave ever, and it’s still climbing…
New figures out today from UK Covid app ZOE show there are currently 3,092,451 symptomatic cases of Covid-19 in Britain, making it the third-largest Covid wave ever, and the wave is still growing. More...
WAPO: Vaccinated people who never had Covid at least three times as likely to be infected as unvaccinated with prior infection
“A Lancet study found that those who were vaccinated but never had covid were four times as likely to have severe illness resulting in hospitalization or death compared to the unvaccinated who recovered from it.” More...
Nearly 2.5 million symptomatic Covid infections reported in the UK
The UK ZOE Covid tracker is showing that there are nearly 2.5 million symptomatic Covid infections in Britain, a figure that has been rising steadily for weeks. More...
Recombination potential between SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV
A June 2021 preprint looking at the potential for a MERS-CoV/SARS-CoV-2 recombination event is receiving a lot of social media attention today following rumours of MERS-CoV/SARS-CoV-2 infections at the World Cup in Qatar. More...
Denmark’s Covid variant soup is turning into a Covid variant smoothie
When we last checked in October 2022, Denmark had sequenced 120 different Covid variants – this month, they have sequenced 249 Covid variants. More...