Vaccine Efficacy Against Symptomatic Disease From BA2 Omicron Down To 45% After Only 3 Months | Most Covid Tests False Positive | Community Antibody Levels Show No Signs Of Waning
A lot of new COVID data has been released from the UK, and Denmark public health agencies today. Essentially, this new information shows diminishing vaccine protection against the new Omicron BA2 variant, inaccurate rapid antigen testing, and how previous infection confers strong protection against hospitalization & death. Keep scrolling to see what you likely missed, but absolutely need to know.
New UK HSA data reveals plummeting vaccine efficacy against symptomatic disease from Omicron BA2 . Specifically, protection conferred by 2 doses dropped to 25% at 5 months, while a subsequent booster at 3 months was only 45% effective
New study in JAMA on rapid antigen testing:
📊179,127 asymptomatic rapid antigen tests performed
✅0.35% positivity rate
🟢38% were true positive
🔴62% false positive (no COVID)
What a shame to subject school kids to this
https://jamanetwork.com/.../jamanetwo.../fullarticle/2790263
70% of Danes aged 17-72 had a COVID infection between Nov 1, 2021- Mar 8th, 2022- that evidenced by anti-nucleocapsid antibodies. Notably, see the drop in Omicron associated IFR (infection fatality rate) with only 35-50% of these deaths being incidental
https://www.ssi.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/2022/smittet-med-coronavirus-siden-november-2021
UK’s latest ONS data on community SARS-COV-2 antibody prevalence shows continued high levels of protection (~99%) with no waning noted in any age group
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