The press release from Valneva suggests their inactivated COVID-19 vaccine candidate was shown to neutralize the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. … read more
Two ethicists have sent over their comments on the Djokovic situation, here they are in case useful. Prof Dominic … read more
A study published in Nature Medicine looks at the protective effects of COVID-19 vaccination on pregnant women in Scotland. … read more
A Sky News report from Saturday showed the interaction between the consultant anaesthetist and the Health and Social Care Secretary, Sajid … read more
A few journalists have asked us about this today, so here is a comment from Professor Jonathan Ives in case … read more
Press releases from the University of Manchester and Gritstone bio announce positive phase 1 clinical data from the first cohort … read more
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has published the latest technical briefing looking at SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation … read more
A study published in Nature looks at the activity of convalescent and vaccine serum against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 … read more
Five studies published in Nature look at the effectiveness of vaccines and antibody treatments against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. … read more
A preprint, an unpublished non-peer reviewed study, reports on the latest data from the REACT-1 study on COVID-19 spread across … read more
The REACT-1 team from Imperial College London has now completed round 16 of their study looking at virus prevalence across … read more
A preprint, an unpublished non-peer reviewed study, from Imperial College London models hospitalisation risk for Omicron cases in England. This … read more
The new report (Report 50: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/covid-19/report-50-severity-omicron/) from the Imperial College London COVID-19 response team estimates hospitalisation risk for Omicron cases … read more
A preprint, unpublished non-peer reviewed data, from the EAVE II study, looks at severity of Omicron variant and vaccine effectiveness … read more
The EAVE II (Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19) project has been tracking the COVID-19 pandemic in near … read more
A preprint, an unpublished non-peer reviewed study, looks at SARS-CoV-2 Omicron spike mediated immune escape, infectivity and cell-cell fusion. … read more
A preprint, an unpublished non-peer reviewed study, from South Africa provides an early assessment of the clinical severity of the … read more
A study published in the Lancet looks at protection of two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 hospital admissions … read more
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have released new data for the number of deaths from COVID-19 in England in relation to … read more
Modelling by Imperial College London looks at booster vaccine effectiveness against the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2. This Roundup accompanied an … read more
