COVID still 'very much with us' with 20% of tests positive in Europe, WHO warns
COVID still 'very much with us' with 20% of tests positive in Europe, WHO warns
The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to strengthen vaccine campaigns.
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Did anyone think that COVID was ever going away?
It's obviously going to be the next annual vaccination, like influenza has already been. I'm waiting for the next formulation to become available before I get my sixth round.
Annual isn't enough.
Pooled estimates of VE of a primary vaccination cycle against laboratory-confirmed Omicron infection and symptomatic disease were both lower than 20% at 6 months from last dose administration. Booster doses restored VE to levels comparable to those acquired soon after the administration of the primary cycle. However, 9 months after booster administration, VE against Omicron was lower than 30% against laboratory-confirmed infection and symptomatic disease.
Oh, yeah, I meant to type "at least" annual. Apparently, my brain thinking about typing that was enough.
There's some early evidence that more traditional vaccines (like NovaVax) may create longer protection than the mRNA vaccines (which seem to have more robust but shorter-lasting protectection).
Interesting. Can you link some details?
So far we have had between 4 and 6 waves a year, each of which is from a different variant. A variant breaks out and within 2 months its infected almost everyone at which point it dies down to become part of the background infections and a new variant takes over. There just isn't enough time to make a vaccine and roll it out to deal with any of that problem. The vaccines that are getting rolled out now are for variant that disappeared 6 months ago. Nothing we do is going to be very effective against this until the vaccines are a lot more effective against potential future variants or we drastically reduce the number of hosts it gets to replicate in.
At first for sure, but after the first... I want to say maybe 8 months, I knew that it'd be declared endemic with how people were just ignoring it in 2021 and pretending like it wasn't there anymore. That said, I'd be out of a job if those restrictions weren't lifted, so its not all bad. But certainly can only help yourself, most people don't do anything and I couldn't even get a fourth shot, so I'm still waiting for a new round so I can go get my shot.
Yes, I work in healthcare and dummies keep getting surprised (or refusing) when they seek treatment for flu-like symptoms and we test for Covid too.