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The US may not reach herd immunity and return to some semblance of normalcy until Thanksgiving at the current pace of COVID-19 vaccinations and speed of variant spread, Biden administration officials told the Daily Beast. That’s far later than the end-of-summer target date by which Dr Anthony Fauci has estimated that American life might get … Read more
Experts say it is possible that the U.S. may achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus as early as July. In a video for MedPage Today, Dr Monica Gandhi, of the University of California San Francisco, said the nation will only be able to curb virus spread between vaccination coverage and natural immunity. There are currently … Read more
London’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community is still at risk from coronavirus and has not achieved herd immunity, scientists warned today after a study showed two-thirds were infected by the disease last year. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researchers found 64 per cent had Covid-19 antibodies after testing the blood of 1,750 members of the … Read more
Coronavirus vaccines could be tweaked to spark immunity against new variants in just three weeks, a top scientist has said. Professor Robin Shattock, an Imperial College London scientist who is working on booster shots, said experts could rapidly adapt the current crop of jabs, allowing them to be rolled out within a couple of months. … Read more
People who have received their first Covid-19 jab must stay at home for three weeks after their injection because it can take that long for immunity to ‘kick in’, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam warned last night. He said that while getting vaccinated was ‘something to celebrate’, recipients of the jab needed to ‘stay patient’. The caution … Read more
Vaccinating every single person in the UK will still not be enough to achieve herd immunity, a new study claims. Analysis from the University of East Anglia (UEA) found that the efficacy of the currently available vaccines, combined with the emergence of new more infectious strains of the virus, put herd immunity out of reach. … Read more
Vaccinating every single person in the UK will not be enough to achieve herd immunity, a new study claims. Analysis from the University of East Anglia (UEA) found the highly-virulent B.1.1.7 strain, which emerged in Kent in September, has made it impossible to ever achieve herd immunity with the current effectiveness of authorised vaccines. The … Read more
Before Covid, before our daily lives changed so dramatically, our immune system was not something most of us gave much serious thought to — while many people would express the desire for a trimmer waist, for example, or ‘to get healthier’, few would talk specifically about getting their immune system into shape. But there’s no … Read more
Tier Four restrictions had little effect on cutting down rates of Covid in London — despite data suggesting that parts of the capital could be close to developing herd immunity against coronavirus because so many people are thought to have been infected. Analysts believe as many as half of people in some boroughs in the … Read more
‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson has revealed that London could already have herd immunity against the coronavirus which will help life ‘get back to normal’ by autumn. Ferguson, whose grim predictions of 500,000 deaths in the UK convinced the government to implement the first lockdown, told The Sunday Times he believes there will soon be a slowdown … Read more