Category: Health
Preprint: Prior natural infection compared to mRNA vaccination for SARS-CoV-2
Natural infection was associated with stronger and more durable protection against infection, regardless of the variant, than mRNA primary-series vaccination. More...
Denmark Covid-19 Trends Report – Week 11
Denmark’s Covid-19 trends report for Week 11 of 2022 shows BA.2_H78Y is stable at about 28% of sequences, a very slight rise from previous weeks. More...
UK: ONS COVID-19 Infection Survey, March 2022
The latest UK Office for National Statistics COVID-19 Infection Survey has just landed. More...
Recombination: Details on XD, XE and XF recombinants by Tom Peacock
There’s a new thread on Twitter by Tom Peacock of Imperial College covering the latest information on the SARS-CoV-2 recombinants XD, XE and XF. More...
Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 Omicron – multiple inter-variant recombination events
“By analyzing sequences from a large number of Omicron subvariants, we identified diverse recombination events between two Omicron subvariants and several SARS-CoV-2 variants, suggesting that co-infection and subsequent genome recombination play important roles in the on-going evolution of SARS-CoV-2. More...
WHO: Covifenz tobacco vaccine won’t get approval for emergency use
The World Health Organization has said that Quebec’s plant-based COVID-19 vaccine will “very likely” not be approved for emergency use. More...
UK: It’s the largest Covid wave EVER *8 UPDATES*
Nearly two hundred and seventy thousand symptomatic cases recorded in a single day in Britain. More...
BA.4: Recombinant of Omicron BA.1 and BA.3
Potential BA.4 lineage with a mix of BA.1 and BA.3 mutations, 5 sequences found in South Africa and USA. More...
Cambodia: Omicron “spreading like wildfire”
Omicron is spreading like wildfire across Cambodia.
“Before Omicron variant came into the country, we were confident of shifting the Covid-19 pandemic to endemic. More...
Israel: New BA.1/BA.2 recombinant variant discovered
The Israeli Health Ministry has announced that two cases of a previously unknown recombinant SARS-CoV-2 variant have been discovered in Israel in recent days.