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Although current Covid vaccines provide a high level of protection against severe disease and death caused by variants of concern (VOC), health experts believe that new vaccines that can prevent infection and transmission are needed.
Data and what we have already seen in south africa is that because certain characteristics of omicron including the fact that it may have a shorter period of time over which someone becomes infectious, that may lead to a much faster and steeper peak, but a shorter wave overall and perhaps even a peak at lower levels than we might have feared. that's promising knees, as is as you have alluded to their is a smaller percentage on cases where we require hospitalisations as we are seeing with other variants. hat hospitalisations as we are seeing with other variants.— hospitalisations as we are se...
Amid concerns arising out of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region on Thursday said that Omicron appears to be spreading faster than any other previous variant and added that one should not dismiss it as mild.
Speed was the right instruction and i think that is correct, but we have to be nimble in how quickly we can manufacture these variance vaccines because i think we will have to produce the variants.— because i think we will have to produce the variants. thank you very much. produce the variants. thank you very much- carol? — produce the variants. thank you very much. carol? studio: _ produce the variants. thank you very much. carol? studio: that- produce the variants. thank you very much. carol? studio: that is- much. carol? studio: that is dame kate bingham, former chair of the vaccines ha...
In a new study by Yale's Akiko Iwasaki, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology, it was found that intranasal vaccination provided broad-based protection against heterologous respiratory viruses in mice.