Lower levels of vitamin D, higher rates of death Association of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Adult Patients With Existing Cardiovascular Disease https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496747/ Observational study, non-interventional Background Vitamin D, lower levels, common in patients with…
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…
Runny nose, 76%. Headache, 75% Sneezing, 66% Sore throat, 52% Loss of smell, 52% https://covid.joinzoe.com/blog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoGqyFUoUSw Most common symptoms in vaccinated and children Runny nose, 76% Headache, 75% Sneezing, 66% Sore throat, 52% Loss of smell, 52% (Fever nor chronic…
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%…
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…
