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UK: 5% of children hospitalized with Covid-19 develop brain or nerve complications

A new UK study has found that around 1 in 20 of children hospitalised with COVID-19 develop brain or nerve complications linked to the viral infection. More...

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Children, Coronavirus, Europe, Health, Infection, Long Covid, Mental Heath, MIS-C PIMS, Science, Symptoms, Transmission, UK

Deepti Gurdasani: “This is a virus that we need to eliminate”, condemns “herd immunity” policies

“There’s no country that has attained herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2. More...

August 3, 2021December 29, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Africa, America, Asia, Australasia, B.1.617.2, Children, Coronavirus, Deaths, Delta, Europe, Health, Herd Immunity, Infection, Reinfection, Transmission, Vaccine, Variants

USA: Alabama’s Covid hospitalizations jump by 30% in one night

A report from the Alabama Department of Health’s online dashboard showed 1,883 hospitalized COVID patients, up by 432 over Sunday’s total. More...

August 3, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Alabama, America, B.1.617.2, Coronavirus, Deaths, Delta, Health, Infection, Texas, Transmission, USA, Vaccine, Variants

Github: AY.3.1 – a new sub-lineage of AY.3 concentrated in Mississippi, USA

AY.3 is the main variant being sequenced weekly in Mississippi (>70% of all recent sequences), most falling within this sub-lineage of AY.3 that is distinguished by the mutations described below (>60% of all recent sequences). More...

August 1, 2021August 1, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com America, AY.3, AY.3.1, B.1.617.2, Coronavirus, Delta, Delta-AY.3, Delta-AY.3.1, Evolution, Genome, Health, Infection, Mississippi, Science, Testing, Transmission, USA, Variants

USA: 233 San Francisco healthcare workers in vaccine breakthough outbreak

At least 233 staff members at two major San Francisco hospitals, most of them fully vaccinated, tested positive for the coronavirus this month. More...

August 1, 2021August 3, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com America, B.1.617.2, California, Coronavirus, Delta, Health, Janssen, Moderna, Pfizer/Biontech, Science, Transmission, USA, Vaccine, Vaccine Breakthrough, Vaccine Waning

UK: Is Delta already making way for a fitter variant?

One thing that we have been keeping on eye on recently is the possible successor variant to Delta B.1.617.2 in the UK. More...

August 1, 2021August 1, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Alpha, AY.3, AY.3.1, B.1.1.7, B.1.617, B.1.617.2, Coronavirus, Delta, Delta-AY.3, Delta-AY.3.1, Europe, Health, Infection, Science, Transmission, UK, Variants

Preprint: Emergence and spread of a B.1.1.28-derived lineage with Q675H and Q677H Spike mutations in Uruguay

In a previous study we found a sublineage B.1.1.28+Q675H+Q677H with local transmission in Rocha, a Uruguayan department bordering Brazil. More...

July 31, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com America, B.1.1.28, Coronavirus, Health, Infection, Science, Testing, Transmission, Uruguay, Variants

UK SAGE Bombshell Report: The Long Term Evolution of Sars-CoV-2

Scenario One: A variant that causes severe disease in a greater proportion of the population than has occurred to date. More...

July 31, 2021December 13, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Co-infection, Convergent, Coronavirus, Deaths, England, Europe, Evolution, Health, Infection, MERS, Northern Ireland, Recombination, Science, Scotland, Transmission, UK, Vaccine Breakthrough, Vaccine Waning, Wales

USA: Cape Cod superspreader – 79% of breakthrough infections symptomatic, 80% of hospitalized were fully vaccinated

Scientists researching the Provincetown, Cape Cod Covid outbreak reported that 79 percent of the breakthrough infections were symptomatic. More...