Cycling. Health. Covid. Diet.

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Pfizer CEO announces Omicron vaccine to be ready in March

Company is ‘already starting manufacturing some of these quantities at risk,’ top boss says

www.independent.co.uk

Pfizer Begins Making Shot That Targets Omicron, Original Virus

Pfizer Inc. is developing a hybrid vaccine that combines its original shot with a formulation that shields against the highly transmissible omicron variant, the drug giant’s top executive said.

www.bloomberg.com

Moderna to trial booster vaccine targeting Omicron variant

COVID news from January 10: Moderna CEO says Omicron-specific booster vaccine is about to enter clinical trials.

www.aljazeera.com

 

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Rapid testing for Omicron: is a nose swab enough?

The fast-spreading Omicron variant has made us more reliant on rapid at-home antigen tests to tell us if we have COVID-19. But should we be swabbing our throats as well as our noses?

www.reuters.com

 

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the present study suggests that T cells should still offer protection against the variant

T cells may protect against Omicron if antibodies fail

Although the Omicron variant can avoid antibody attack, a new study suggests that T cells should still offer protection against the variant.

www.medicalnewstoday.com

 

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This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure

New algorithms that decipher complex sequences of amino acids offered an early view of the coronavirus variant. They could point the way to future drugs.

www.wired.com

 

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Is a universal coronavirus vaccine on the horizon?

Scientists are racing to develop a single vaccine that protects against many SARS-CoV-2 variants, as well as emerging coronaviruses with the potential to trigger a new pandemic.

www.nationalgeographic.com

 

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Surveillance up your wazoo...

COVID-19: Technology developed to track spread of coronavirus could be abused, privacy campaigner warns

Phil Booth, coordinator at MedConfidential, warns that increased monitoring of wastewater from sinks, drains and toilets, which can reveal infections and drug use, needs to be properly regulated.

news.sky.com

 

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Study: Omicron infection of vaccinated individuals enhances neutralizing immunity against the Delta variant

https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.70/1mx.c5c.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MEDRXIV-2021-268439v2-Sigal.pdf

 

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Pfizer's antiviral Covid pill shows effectiveness against Omicron

Pfizer's Paxlovid showed an ability to prevent hospitalization and death from the Omicron Covid variant in three lab studies. The drug has been lauded as the best Covid treatment available.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic

www.newscientist.com

 

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Breakthrough infections with SARS-CoV-2 omicron despite mRNA vaccine booster dose

Breakthrough infections with SARS-CoV-2 omicron despite mRNA vaccine booster dose

The most recent SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern to emerge has been named omicron.1 Its immune evasion potential was predicted by genomic data and has been preliminarily confirmed by observations of an increased incidence of reinfections and breakthrough infections.2 This has triggered calls to...

www.thelancet.com

 

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Omicron is on its way out

Omicron peaked in England in early January, according to figures just released by the ONS. The estimates from the weekly infection survey show that cases in the UK peaked at around four million before falling. In the week ending 15 January, 1 in 20 had Covid in England, Scotland and Northern...

www.spectator.co.uk

 

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Omicron forced a fifth of GPs to self-isolate in two-week period that battered NHS

One in five GPs were forced to self-isolate because of COVID-19 in the two weeks after Christmas and two thirds say absences undermined patient care, according to polling that reveals the depth of the impact of Omicron on general practice.

www.gponline.com

 

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Fourth Pfizer jab ineffective in blocking Omicron, according to Israeli study

A fourth Pfizer vaccine is mostly ineffective in halting Omicron infections despite empowering antibodies, a study from Israel has revealed.

www.joe.co.uk

 

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New Study: During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Hospital Workers Improved Heart Health and Quality of Life With a Plant-Based Diet

WASHINGTON—A plant-based diet helped hospital workers improve their heart health and quality of life at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.

www.pcrm.org

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15598276211050339?journalCode=ajla

 

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REACT study: "Almost complete replacement of Delta by Omicron"

Data from an ongoing UK trial finds 99% of COVID cases are Omicron, described as "almost complete replacement of Delta"

www.openaccessgovernment.org

 

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Omicron neutralising antibodies after third COVID-19 vaccine dose in patients with cancer

Omicron neutralising antibodies after third COVID-19 vaccine dose in patients with cancer

Patients with cancer are at greater risk of severe COVID-19 and have been prioritised for COVID-19 vaccination globally. We previously showed that following two doses of COVID-19 vaccines, neutralising antibody (nAb) responses against the B.1.1.7 (alpha), B.1.351 (beta), and B.1.617.2 (delta)...

www.thelancet.com

 

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Just popping in to break the monotony of pasted articles from the same person.
Without the occasional alternative post from somebody else there's a risk of epilepsy if scrolling down the page too fast.

 

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This is a pic of the latest ripe crown prince pumpkin, which I have drunk the delicious juice of. You can see it dripping with Zeaxanthin, which I hope will do my ill retinas some good. (Natural spring water fed)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeaxanthin

 

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World-First Experiment That Infected People With Coronavirus Shares Early Results

Scientists deliberately infected young, healthy volunteers with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 – and now, they've shared their first results from that experiment. The new study, published Tuesday (Feb.

www.sciencealert.com

Safety, tolerability and viral kinetics during SARS-CoV-2 human challenge

To establish a novel SARS-CoV-2 human challenge model, 36 volunteers aged 18-29 years without evidence of previous infection or vaccination were inoculated with 10 TCID50 of a wild-type virus (SARS-CoV-2/human/GBR/484861/2020) intranasally. Two participants were excluded from per pr...

www.researchsquare.com

 

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Anti-vax Italian priest, 51, dies from coronavirus

Don Paolo Romeo, 51, was a parish priest at Santo Stefano Abbey in Genoa, northern Italy.

www.dailymail.co.uk