A study involving NBA players, their families, and staff found that vaccines reduce transmission in breakthrough cases compared to those unvaccinated people.
South Africa has advanced laboratories working on COVID-19 where they also discovered the alarming new variant Omicron. Currently, it is driving most cases in the capital, and commercial hub of the country.
Researchers discovered that the COVID-19 antibody levels are higher for women and children, compared to men and people whose age is above 65 years old.
The Omicron COVID-19 variant has been identified as a variant of concern due to its increased risk of reinfection. Scientists are now working to understand how vaccines will work against this new variant.
Glynn Steel, the man who recently died due to COVID-19 "begged for a vaccine" before he went on life support, although at the time, it was already too late to inoculate him, his wife Emma said in a news report.
Dr. Anthony Fauci remarked that while he is doubting the COVID-19 virus will totally be eradicated, he would like to see daily infection rates fall below 10,000 before the United States can start "living with COVID-19."
People with severe COVID-19 infection sometimes only have lung transplantation as their option to survive. The rising demand now raises questions on the ethics of allocating the scarce resource to those who chose to not get vaccinated.
News of a recently updated COVID-19 vaccine comes as Scientists and health officials warn the new Omicron strain that was originally detected in South Africa, could transmit easily across the globe.
The UK has previously announced travel bans in six South African countries after the confirmation of the new mutant COVID-19 variant Omicron. But PM Boris Johnson is now considering extending it to more countries to prevent local transmission, especially during the holiday season.
A joint team of researchers from Qatar's Ministry of Public Health and Weill Cornell Medicine suggests that people reinfected with COVID 19 are less likely to become severely or critically ill or die from the virus compared to their first infection.