Category: Vaccine Waning
UKHSA: Vaccine effectiveness drops to just 40% – 50% ten weeks after booster dose
Two to 4 weeks after a booster dose, vaccine effectiveness ranged from around 65% to 75%, dropping to 55% to 70% at 5 to 9 weeks and 40% to 50% from 10+ weeks after the booster. More...
Faroe Islands: 63% breakthrough in triple vaccinated heathcare workers
21 out of 33 hospital employees from the National Hospital in the Faroe Islands were infected with Omikron at a private meeting in early December. More...
France: 180,000 new Covid cases in one day
While the wave of the Delta variant is not over, Omicron is on the way to asserting itself in France, as in the world. More...
It’s the largest global Covid wave EVER
Driven by the new Omicron variant, the world is now being overwhelmed by the largest global Sars-CoV-2 wave EVER. More...
Finland suspends vaccine passports – “triple vaccination is not a guarantee that you are not infected”
In Finland, vaccination passports are suspended for three weeks until 17 January. More...
ALERT! The world’s highest ever daily case rate has just been recorded
The world saw it’s highest ever number of Covid infections in one day yesterday. More...
France, Italy and Spain all see new pandemic record infection figures
France: Covid-19: more than 90,000 cases in 24 hours in France. More...
UK.GOV: Vaccine booster doses wane after just 10 weeks
“The latest data suggests this extra protection starts to wane more rapidly, being about 15 to 25% lower from 10 weeks after the booster dose.” More...
London ablaze with Covid: Brixton has 4,445 Covid cases per 100,000 people
Central and south London are ablaze with Covid. Most areas of London have a case rate of over 1,600 per 100,000 people, and in Brixton, south London, the case rate is an astonishing 4,445 per 100,000 people. More...
Imperial College: Omicron is NOT milder than Delta
“We find no evidence (for both risk of hospitalisation attendance and symptom status) of Omicron having different severity from Delta, though data on hospitalisations are still very limited… Omicron was associated with a 5.41 fold higher relative risk of reinfection compared with Delta.” More...