Category: BA.1

UK ONS: 2.7% of the British population reporting Long Covid symptoms

An estimated 1.7 million people living in private households in the UK (2.7% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 5 March 2022

The estimates presented in this analysis relate to self-reported long COVID, as experienced by study participants who responded to a representative survey, rather than clinically diagnosed ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 or post-COVID-19 syndrome in the full population.… ...More...

Coronaheadsup.com BA.1, BA.2, Children, Coronavirus, Delta, Elderly, England, Europe, Healthcare, Hospitalization, Infection, London, Long Covid, Mental Heath, Northern Ireland, Omicron, Recombinants, Scotland, Symptoms, Transmission, UK, Wales

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...

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SARS-CoV-2 potential recombinants in Brazil, Belgium, France, Netherlands, US, Finland, Puerto Rico, Spain

SARS_CoV-2 recombinants seem to have been popping up across the globe recently. We have listed some of the most recent examples below, with links to their various Github issue pages.… ...More...

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Preprint: Identification of Deltacron recombinants in the United States

In this report, we describe viruses with recombinant genomes containing signature mutations from Delta and Omicron variants. These genomes are the first evidence for a Delta-Omicron hybrid Spike protein in the United States.… ...More...

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