Category: Hospitalization
UK: vaccine mandate abolished for care workers
UK Care workers who were sacked for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine may be able to get their jobs back this month after the Government confirmed it is repealing the jabs mandate. More...
Hong Kong: Nine day lockdown expected
South China Morning Post are reporting that a nine-day Covid-19 lockdown of Hong Kong is expected, and that “each resident will be required to undergo three tests during the mass testing,” the source said. More...
Preprint: Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 vaccine among children 5-11 and 12-17 years in New York after the emergence of the Omicron variant
For children 5-11, VE against cases declined from 65% to 12% by 28-34 days. More...
Hong Kong: Link between Covid cases and deaths re-established *4 UPDATES*
Hong Kong may impose a hard lockdown that confines people to their homes, authorities signalled Monday 28th February 2022, with the city’s zero-COVID strategy in tatters and bodies piling up in hospitals. More...
Is the global Sars-CoV-2 decline already petering out? *4 UPDATES & 1 PREDICTION*
Is the Omicron decline already petering out? There’s not much to go on yet, a few stutters in the world cases chart, some countries starting to see new surges, but it all looks vaguely familiar. More...
WHO: BA.2 to remain classified as Omicron
Based on available data of transmission, severity, reinfection, diagnostics, therapeutics and impacts of vaccines, the group reinforced that the BA.2 sublineage should continue to be considered a variant of concern and that it should remain classified as Omicron. More...
Sweden: Prepare for a new variant of special importance on March 20th 2022
Sweden has just published a document outlining two scenarios for the future of the pandemic over the next few months. More...
Man tests positive for Covid 28 times in the six weeks AFTER his death
The body of a Ukrainian man who died from drowning in Italy tested positive for Covid-19 as many as 28 times in the six weeks after his death. More...
Preprint: Recurrent Covid-19 episodes in HCW tended to be more severe
We describe 33 patients with recurrent COVID-19 and a positive PCR. More...
UK NERVTAG: Long term evolution of SARS-CoV-2, 10 February 2022
UK SAGE NERVTAG have released an update of their long term evolution predictions for SARS-CoV-2 in a paper entitled “Can we predict the limits of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their phenotypic consequences? More...