Professor Roger Seheult, MD of MedCram with an update on the effectiveness of four major vaccines against the delta variant of COVID-19: Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson and Johnson Vaccine (This video was recorded on July 19, 2021).
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TOPICS IN THIS VIDEO INCLUDE:
00:00 General overview of SARS-CoV-2 variants
02:44 Characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant (B.1.617.2)
03:21 Preliminary data on delta variant infection rates by age & risk of severe infection
05:14 How delta variant is affecting COVID-19 case numbers in the UK, Israel, and United States
06:55 How do the COVID-19 vaccines stack up against delta variant? Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
12:20 Data on the effectiveness of Moderna vaccine against the delta variant
12:42 Data on effectiveness of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against the delta variant
13:41 Information on Johnson & Johnson vaccine effectiveness against related SARS-CoV-2 variants (no current data on delta variant)
15:29 Vaccination rates across the United States
17:04 What to do if you’re infected with COVID-19?
Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at
He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.
LINKS / REFERENCES:
5 Things To Know About the Delta Variant (Yale Medicine) |
REACT-1 round 12 report: resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in England associated with increased frequency of the Delta variant (Imperial College) |
SARS-CoV-2 Delta VOC in Scotland: demographics, risk of hospital admission, and vaccine effectiveness (The Lancet) |
Vaccines highly effective against B.1.617.2 variant after 2 doses (GOV.UK) |
Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against hospital admission with the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant (Public Health England) |
Moderna Provides a Clinical Update on the Neutralizing Activity of its COVID-19 Vaccine on Emerging Variants Including the Delta Variant First Identified in India (Moderna) |
How much protection COVID-19 vaccines give you against the Delta variant, according to the best available data (Business Insider) |
The total number and mass of SARS-CoV-2 virions (NIH) |
Covid vaccine: How many people in the UK have been vaccinated so far? (BBC News) |
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