Category: Variants
The stunning rise of the Mu variant
The new Mu variant, B.1.621, detected for the first time in Colombia, surpasses Lambda and Delta and is already ranked as the second with the highest circulation in Chile. More...
Oregon: 13,166 vaccine breakthrough cases, 650 hospitalized, 113 deaths
There have been 13,166 vaccine breakthrough cases identified in Oregon. More...
UK: firebreak lockdown may be needed after letting virus run rampant all summer
“The UK Government is planning October ‘firebreak’ restrictions if hospital admissions stay high”. More...
California: 112,000 vaccine breakthrough cases, 3,000 hospitalized, 306 deaths
The latest vaccine breakthrough figures for California make sobering reading, showing the extent of the vaccine breakthrough crisis now engulfing the state. More...
BMJ: Allowing mass infection of children is reckless
“Children have suffered significant harms from Covid-19. In just the past two months there have been over 2,300 hospitalisations of under 18s in England. More...
Scotland: 70% of Covid deaths and 58% of hospitalizations are fully vaccinated
Grim news from Scotland where fresh Covid outbreaks are causing record infection numbers and vaccine breakthrough cases are now in the majority for both Covid hospitalizations and deaths. More...
Taiwan: first case of Mu variant found is a vaccine breakthrough case
Taiwan announced its first confirmed case of the Mu variant of COVID-19, a Taiwanese woman who had received two Pfizer vaccine doses in the U.S. More...
USA: 53% vaccine breakthrough in Teton County, Wyoming
In the last two weeks (August 15-29), 372 confirmed active COVID-19 cases were reported in Teton County. More...
USA: 40% vaccine breakthrough in Massachusetts last week
Breakthrough infections accounted for about 40% of all cases reported in Massachusetts last week. More...
UK: Vaccine breakthrough rate for Delta infections is 23% in Technical Briefing 22
The latest UK PHE Technical Briefing 22 has just been published, and it shows that the vaccine breakthrough rate for Delta infections in the UK continues to increase. More...