UKHSA bombshell: Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the Omicron variant

“Among those who had received 2 doses of [AstraZeneca], there was NO protective effect of vaccination against symptomatic disease with Omicron from 15 weeks after the second dose.”  More...

UK: All travellers will require a PCR test and quarantine until negative to prevent spread of Omicron

At a press conference today, 10 Downing Street announced new measures to combat the potential spread of the Omicron variant in the UK.  More...

Vaccinated are more likely to be infected with Covid-19

“We must recognise that unvaccinated people are unlikely to cause any more risk to others than the vaccinated, and perhaps less.”  More...

UK: Fully vaccinated up to 29 times more likely to catch Covid

The latest UKHSA vaccine report is out, and the vaccine breakthrough figures are simply jaw-dropping.  More...

Intravenous injection of mRNA Covid vaccine can induce acute myopericarditis in mice

This study provided in vivo evidence that inadvertent intravenous injection of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines may induce myopericarditis.  More...

South Korea: Nearly half of recent Covid cases in Seoul are vaccine breakthrough infections

“Of the 646 new cases confirmed in Seoul on Sunday, 49.4 percent, or 319 cases, were breakthrough cases,” Park Yoo-mi, a disease control official at the Seoul metropolitan government, said in a briefing.  More...