Category: Health
Chile: Santiago goes back into lockdown despite 60% coronavirus vaccination rate
As of the early hours of this Saturday, 12th June 2021, Santiago de Chile has once again entered quarantine. More...
UK: Delta with K417N – the “mountaineers” variant – PHE coronavirus Delta-AY.1 update
Of the 36 cases of Delta-AY.1 (mountaineers) variant, 27 cases were known to have a vaccination status within the National Immunisation Management System (NIMS). More...
Africa: The Andromedary Strain – the next coronavirus pandemic waiting in the wings
MERS-CoVs in African camels may independently acquire amino acid substitutions in the coronavirus spike that may confer increased pathogenicity for humans. More...
UK: a full national coronavirus lockdown is needed by 21st June 2021
Britain’s second wave of Covid-19 started in early September 2020. More...
UK: PHE on Delta Variant – 6.2% vaccine breakthrough with both doses
I see people stressing about vaccination death data due to some unclear #scicomms on here…
So here it is: we know of 33,206 cases of Delta variant (28,917 with vax info)
1,785 were fully vaccinated and *still* got infected (6.2% of cases)
Of these 1,785, 12 died (0.7%)
— Meaghan Kall (@kallmemeg) June 11, 2021
More...Will leave the brilliant @JamesWard73 to estimate VE against those numbers
Of note is the high % of severe outcomes among people breakthrough infections.
UK: Delta variant is more infectious than the Alpha variant despite vaccinations
Shown above, the UK 2nd coronavirus wave, from September 6th to October 2nd 2020. More...
UK: massive rise in Delta coronavirus vaccine breakthrough cases
“There are currently 1,917 new daily symptomatic cases of COVID in vaccinated people, an increase of 89% from 1,014 cases, compared to 9,991 new daily symptomatic cases in unvaccinated people. More...
Spain: Coronavirus outbreak at Galicia mink farm
In Galicia this week another mink farm has been temporarily closed down by the authorities following an outbreak of Covid-19 at the establishment. More...
UK: Matt Hancock coronavirus PPE – “we did manage to ensure that at a national level we had the PPE”
No we didn’t. #WeKnowYouAreLying
More...NHS Staff Using Bin Bags and Ski Goggles for #Coronavirus Protection.
Preprint: vaccine breakthrough coronavirus infections may be common in transplant patients
“We studied 658 transplant recipients who received 2 doses of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine. More...