High infection rates in UK, going down in US https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/19/people-must-cautious-day-to-day-interactions-covid-cases-climb/ Lower functional immunity in our population than most other Western European countries Early vaccine roll out AstraZeneca protects slightly less well than Pfizer against infection and transmission, particularly delta variant…
Moderna boosters, recommended by FDA independent advisory panel 65 and older and for adults who are at high risk of severe illness Six months Half dose Jacqueline Miller, head of Moderna’s infectious-disease therapeutic area https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/14/moderna-booster-shot-fda/ Six to eight months after…
Post infection natural immunity, debate and implications for mandatory vaccination https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2101 US as of 11th December 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20210115184811/https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html US, Natural infection, Feb 2020 to May 2021 0 – 17 26.8 / 73 37% 18 – 49 60.5 / 138 44%…
The term “waning immunity” has picked up steam recently, with many countries using it to push for a roll out of COVID-19 booster shots. Waning immunity refers to a decline in antibodies over time after receiving a vaccine or getting…
COVID bounce back, based on PCR and LFT test data Based on PCR and LFT test data 7th to 21st August 2021 Around one million weekly contributors 25,876 recent swab tests Symptomatic cases in fully vaccinated (UK), 29.4% of the…
Herd immunity will not come Prof Andrew Pollard, Oxford vaccine team Clear that the delta variant can infect people already vaccinated Making herd immunity impossible to reach even with high vaccine uptake Anyone who is still unvaccinated will, at some…
