New science explains South Africa’s low rates of omicron severe disease SARS-CoV-2 spike T cell responses induced upon vaccination or infection remain robust against Omicron https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.26.21268380v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v1 Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town SARS-CoV-2 Omicron…

Thanks to Marianna and DW. This would have been a better answer to the question I messed up: Two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination provides some protection against symptomatic infection with omicron, but significant protection against hospitalisation (South Africa data) 33% protection against…

UK case surge has started, R is 3 to 5 https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10316627/Covid-cases-hit-463-000-Christmas-Eve-3-population-isolation.html?ito=email_share_article-top Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital trust 10% off with Covid Chris Whitty Omicron wave, going to peak very quickly Infections doubling every 2 to 3 days NHS, reduction…

Vitamin D in Israel. Dr Michael Cohen discusses the importance of Vitamin D and zinc for the optimisation of the immune system. Vitamin K2 is also used to distribute calcium to the correct tissues. Thankyou Dr Cohen for this excellent…

Gibraltar Population, 33,691 Has administered at least 94,469 vaccine doses Enough to have fully vaccinated 140.2% of the country’s population. Face masks required in all shops and supermarkets, public transport, in medical centres, indoor funerals, Airport. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/gibraltar/ Europe https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 World…

Deficiency of vit D limits the performance of systems resulting in, increased spread of diseases of civilization Reduced protection against infections Reduced effectiveness of vaccination Covid fatality rates correlate with, Elderly, dark, black people, comorbidities, winter Blood level of 20…