High infection rates in UK, going down in US https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/19/people-must-cautious-day-to-day-interactions-covid-cases-climb/ Lower functional immunity in our population than most other Western European countries Early vaccine roll out AstraZeneca protects slightly less well than Pfizer against infection and transmission, particularly delta variant…
Moderna boosters, recommended by FDA independent advisory panel 65 and older and for adults who are at high risk of severe illness Six months Half dose Jacqueline Miller, head of Moderna’s infectious-disease therapeutic area https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/14/moderna-booster-shot-fda/ Six to eight months after…
Zinc and immune function: the biological basis of altered resistance to infection https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9701160/ Zinc is known to play a central role in the immune system and zinc-deficient persons experience increased susceptibility to a variety of pathogens It is clear that…
COVID bounce back, based on PCR and LFT test data Based on PCR and LFT test data 7th to 21st August 2021 Around one million weekly contributors 25,876 recent swab tests Symptomatic cases in fully vaccinated (UK), 29.4% of the…
Natural infection and / or vaccination? and Special report Mississippi Delta in UK Viral burden and vaccine effectiveness against new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the UK Delta infections after two vaccine doses had similar peak levels of virus to those in…
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher hospitalisation risk from COVID-19: a retrospective case-control study (June 2021) Not funded Large scale, retrospective case-control study North West of England Two hospital groups Lancaster and Tameside and Glossop Objective Is hospitalisation with…
