COVID-19 booster dose may not alter disease severity trend
A cross-sectional survey of nearly 6,000 people across age groups including those over 80 years of age carried out through
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COVID-19 immunity following infection lasts up to 19 months
Hybrid immunity after one and two doses of vaccine was associated with 94% and 90% lower risk of hospitalisation, respectively
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Why Omicron sub-lineage BA.2 spreads faster than BA.1
A few studies are now discovering that BA.2 sub-lineage has even higher propensity than BA.1 to spread among people
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Faster spread of Omicron is not due to higher viral load
Omicron has replaced the Delta variant, which was considered highly transmissible, in almost every country across the world
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COVID-19: Covaxin booster increases neutralising antibodies, study finds
The control arm of the study had 93 participants and the intervention arm had 91 participants, but most of these people were under 55 years
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India’s potential participation in COVAX advance market commitment is under way: Trevor Mundel
Trevor Mundel, President of the Global Health Division, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has led the foundation’s efforts to support
Read MoreTrump jolts science, gives anti-vax movement a booster dose
Anti-vax activists in the U.S. are already cheering. A presidential commission on vaccine safety (read a link between measles-mumps-rubella (MMR)
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