Category: Vaccine
The future of Sars-CoV-2: Multiple vaccine breakthrough infections in one patient
The patient had three RT-PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections. Two breakthrough infections occurred in quick succession with the first over 3 weeks after complete vaccination with COVISHIELD and despite post-vaccination seroconversion. More...
5 billion Covid-19 vaccinations administered globally
5 billion Covid-19 vaccines have been given to 2 billion people on Earth. More...
Preprint: Just three mutations for SARS-CoV-2 to escape from highly neutralizing convalescent plasma
“Only three mutations were sufficient to generate this escape variant.” More...
CDC: mRNA vaccines just 53.1% effective against Delta infection among nursing home residents
“Two doses of mRNA vaccines were 74.7% effective against infection among nursing home residents early in the vaccination program. More...
UK: Vaccine breakthrough rate for Delta infections still increasing
The latest UK PHE Technical Briefing has just been published, and it shows that the vaccine breakthrough rate for Delta infections in the UK continues to increase by about 6% per month. More...
Delta vaccine breakthrough cases in Washington State quadruple in two weeks
This week’s update from Washington State showing vaccine breakthrough cases and which Sars-CoV-2 variant is causing them up to 18th August 2021. More...
France: Hundreds infected by Covid-19 in nursing homes in one week
There have been a large number of reports of Covid-19 infections in French nursing homes over the past week. More...
Preprint: Cryptic transmission of Delta AY.3 among fully vaccinated patients
Here we report cryptic transmission associated with high Delta variant viral load among vaccinated patients on an inpatient medical-surgical ward. More...
UK: it’s an epidemic of the partially vaccinated
The latest UK ZOE Covid app data from 12th August 2021 shows that you are now more likely to catch Covid-19 if you are partially vaccinated than if you are unvaccinated. More...
UK: more than 13,000 women report changes to periods after having Covid-19 vaccine
The number of UK women reporting changes to their menstrual cycle linked to having a Covid-19 vaccine has risen to 13,000. More...









