Medicine & TechnologyKorea Disease Control and Prevention Agency health officials said that people infected with the delta variant have 300 times viral load than the original strain. The Koren scientists are now advising to get tested as soon as they experience symptoms.
Even though the delta variant was around the corner, New Zealand is equipped with a whole new level of coronavirus testing. New Zealand prevented the transmission of the COVID-19 delta variant through the help of real-time genome sequencing.
A study from researchers of the University of Oxford found that fully vaccinated people suffering from breakthrough COVID-19 delta variant carry a similar amount of viral load as those infected unvaccinated individuals.
The pharmaceutical company Moderna recently produced a press release that includes the efficacy report of their COVID-19 vaccines over the past 6 months.
The surge of RSV and COVID-19 delta variant cases has been affecting pediatric hospitals. The rates of children hospitalized increased compared to the previous records in the initial waves of the pandemic.
As the world is slowly easing back to life post-COVID-19, a new strain is forcing countries to put up their defenses: the more infectious Delta Variant.
Breakthrough infections are rare but not impossible even after getting vaccinated. So what should fully vaccinated people do when they were exposed to infected COVID-19 patients?
A recent study published in The New England Journal of Medicine confirms that the Pfizer vaccine works effectively against the COVID-19 delta variant, with a whopping 88% efficacy.
A study claims that one dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is less effective against the Indian Delta variant compared to other vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna.
The latest COVID-19 surge in Mississippi resulting from the Delta variant is hitting the younger population too, along with growing concerns over students' return to school next month.
An unpublished COVID-19 case recently showed a 90-year-old unvaccinated woman after contracting the virus this spring in Europe was found to have been infected with two variants at the same time.