Emergency calls for cardiac arrest in young people in Israel were associated with the vaccine rollout, spiking 25% higher than in earlier years, but not with COVID-19 prevalence, a study in Nature has found.
Protection against infection from a fourth Pfizer vaccine dose wanes to zero in just eight weeks, an Israeli study published in the NEJM has found.
The vast majority of elderly Singaporeans had been double-vaccinated by the 1st of October 2021. Despite this, the country saw a deadly Delta wave, with excess mortality exceeding 30% in both October and November.
According to the latest UKHSA data, while the death rate in the unvaccinated has been in a strong trend downwards since the start of the year, the death rate in the vaccinated has been trending upwards.
An Israeli study finds 25% of triple-jabbed and 20% of quadruple-jabbed healthcare workers were infected and infectious during the Omicron wave and concludes the vaccine programme has failed to stop the spread.
Why are reported Covid deaths in Denmark approaching a record high, despite high levels of vaccination and the mildness of Omicron? It is all the more perplexing because ICU numbers are right down low.
Trudeau has boxed himself into a corner with no obvious escape. But as hospitalisations and deaths rise despite vaccines and Omicron, will the shifting of 'the Science' offer him a way out?
The number of patients being admitted to ICU for Covid in the U.K. (excluding Scotland) fell to as little as two in one day last month, according to data from ICNARC.
Prof Yaakov Jerris, the Director of a Covid ward in an Israeli hospital, has said between 70% and 80% of the serious cases in his hospital are vaccinated and the vaccine has "no significance regarding severe illness".
Sweden has announced the end of almost all restrictions as its Public Health Agency becomes the latest to declare COVID-19 "no longer a danger to society".
