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Are New Omicron Subvariants a Threat? Here’s how Scientists are Keeping Watch. Western Cape, South Africa Speckled guineafowl drift into the garden where Tulio de Oliveira sits as he describes two new members of the growing Omicron family of SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses. Called BA.4...
In South Africa, a network of researchers are studying whether new lineages BA.4 and BA.5 escape immunity from COVID-19 vaccines and prior infections
Scientists are studying whether ivermectin could be used to treat COVID-19, but so far, there's little data to suggest it's effective.
New data released on Thursday, suggests the one-dose Johnson & Johnson (J&J) jab protects against the new, more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19. In fact, the jab may be better at fending off infections from the new strain than it was at protecting against South Africa’s previous variants. The vaccine performed even better against the Delta variant in these laboratory tests than against the Beta Covid-19 strain that was, until recently, the dominant strain of the virus in South Africa. One of the studies was released as a pre-print but has not yet been peer-reviewed. The other is await...
Experts say the spike protein created after mRNA vaccination is different than the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, contrary to a post by Dr. Robert Malone.