Category: Revaccination
Spain: Fully boosted healthcare worker reinfected with SARs-CoV-2 after just 20 days
A fully boosted 31-year-old Spanish woman has contracted two different SARS-CoV-2 variants within three weeks. The 20-day gap between infections is the shortest known.… ...More...
EMA: “Too early to consider using a fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines”
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and EMA’s COVID-19 task force (ETF) have concluded that it is too early to consider using a fourth dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer’s Comirnaty and Moderna’s Spikevax) in the general population.… ...More...
Preprint: 100% symptomatic infection with XD recombinant
“This recombinant (XD) exhibits immune escape properties similar to Omicron, while its behavior in mice expressing the human ACE2 receptor is more similar to Delta.”… ...More...
Bill Gates: “Omicron, is a type of vaccine…”
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was recently recorded as saying “Sadly, the virus itself, particularly, the variant called omicron, is a type of vaccine, that is, it creates both B-cell and T-cell immunity, and it’s done a better job getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines.”… ...More...
UK: Fifth Covid-19 jab in two years for the over 50’s planned
The UK Health Secretary has suggested that a fifth dose of a Covid-19 may be needed in the autumn of 2022.… ...More...
Preprint: Prior natural infection compared to mRNA vaccination for SARS-CoV-2
Natural infection was associated with stronger and more durable protection against infection, regardless of the variant, than mRNA primary-series vaccination.… ...More...
UK: ONS COVID-19 Infection Survey, March 2022
The latest UK Office for National Statistics COVID-19 Infection Survey has just landed. The key points of the report are…
- 3 million people (roughly one in 20) were infected with Covid on March 12
- One in thirteen people infected in Sutton
- Worst ever infection rate in Scotland
- Around one in fourteen infected in Wales
- Around one in fourteen infected in Northern Ireland
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UK: It’s the largest Covid wave EVER *8 UPDATES*
Nearly two hundred and seventy thousand symptomatic cases recorded in a single day in Britain.
The ZOE Covid app is showing extraordinary infection figures for the UK.… ...More...
Cambodia: Omicron “spreading like wildfire”
Omicron is spreading like wildfire across Cambodia.
“Before Omicron variant came into the country, we were confident of shifting the Covid-19 pandemic to endemic.… ...More...
Pfizer and Moderna: Fourth shot of COVID vaccine on the way
A fourth dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will be necessary in order to maintain manageable levels of hospitalizations and mild infections, CEO Albert Bourla said yesterday.… ...More...
Germany: Coronavirus could remain for decades
German Health Minister Lauterbach expects a possible coronavirus wave in Germany this autumn. The virus could “keep us busy for a long time – a decade or more”.… ...More...
Hong Kong: Omicron BA.2 with S:I1221T mutation at 100% of recent sequences *6 UPDATES*
A catchup post looking at the BA.2 variant with mutation S:I1221T. The combination is found in most of the recent BA.2 sequences from Hong Kong, so the mutation may be significant.… ...More...
Preprint: Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 vaccine among children 5-11 and 12-17 years in New York after the emergence of the Omicron variant
For children 5-11, VE against cases declined from 65% to 12% by 28-34 days. In the Omicron era, the effectiveness against cases of BNT162b2 declined rapidly for children, particularly those 5-11 years.… ...More...
Hong Kong: Link between Covid cases and deaths re-established *4 UPDATES*
Hong Kong may impose a hard lockdown that confines people to their homes, authorities signalled Monday 28th February 2022, with the city’s zero-COVID strategy in tatters and bodies piling up in hospitals.… ...More...