by Cara Murez People may assume that a COVID-19 infection protects them the next time they encounter the virus, but that’s not necessarily true. A new study of 750 vaccinated seniors living in retirement homes and long-term care facilities found that those infected during the first omicron wave were actually more vulnerable to reinfection with...
by The University of Hong Kong Estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) and infection attack rate (IAR) over time. (1) VE at zero to 200 days from receipt of last dose. VE is presented separately over time for three or four homologous doses of Comirnaty (BNT) or CoronaVac. (2) IAR over time. (1 & 2) The lines...
by Ryan O’hare, Imperial College London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People infected with the omicron variant show poor immune boosting against future SARS-CoV-2 infection. These are the findings of a study published today in the journal Science, led by researchers at Imperial College London, which looks at how the complex patchwork of immunity in the population...
