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280 cases of Delta variant with N501Y, some with E484K too

Delta + Alpha + Beta + Gamma recombinant variant found in Turkey. More...

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Sinovac vaccine produces ten times fewer antibodies than Pfizer

A study conducted in Hong Kong on more than a thousand patients shows that the Coronavac vaccine, developed by the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, causes the production of ten times less antibodies than the vaccine developed by BioNTech and produced by Pfizer. More...

August 12, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Asia, Chile, CoronaVac, Coronavirus, Hong Kong, Pfizer/Biontech, Testing, The Seychelles, Vaccine

Iceland: no herd immunity from vaccines with 50% vaccine breakthrough for hospitalizations

Iceland’s Chief Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason says vaccination has not led to the herd immunity that experts hoped for. More...

August 8, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com B.1.617.2, Coronavirus, Delta, Europe, Herd Immunity, Hospitalization, Iceland, Infection, Science, Testing, Transmission, Vaccine, Vaccine Breakthrough, Vaccine Waning, Variants

USA: B.1.621 now at 10% of Covid-19 sequences in South Florida

Carlos Migoya, CEO of Jackson Health, revealed that now 10% of COVID-positive patients whose results are being sequenced at the University of Miami’s pathology lab have a strain [B.1.621] that originated out of Colombia. More...

August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com America, B.1.621, Colombia, Coronavirus, Florida, Genome, Infection, Testing, Transmission, USA, Variants

Preprint: Characterization of the emerging B.1.621 variant of interest of SARS-CoV-2

In this study, we reported the emergence and spread of the novel B.1.621 lineage of SARS-CoV-2, a new VOI with the insertion 146N and several amino acid substitutions in the Spike protein (T95I,Y144T, Y145S, R346K, E484K, N501Y and P681H). More...

August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com America, B.1.621, Belgium, Colombia, Coronavirus, E484K, Genome, Infection, Mutation, N501Y, P681H, Science, Testing, Transmission, Vaccine Breakthrough, Y144

Iceland: 70% vaccine breakthrough – 1,565 infections of which 1,091 are fully vaccinated

Iceland’s Covid dashboard confirms the vaccine breakthrough rate in that country is about 70% for infections, as per the information given below. More...