The Friday Report is our regular fortnightly update with a summary of the key papers and analyses that we’ve looked at recently. In Friday Report 66 we look at:
- Vaccine progress – boosters for the old, first vaccines for the very young
- Prevalence of variants BA.2.12.1, BA.4 & BA.5 in South Africa, USA and UK
- Growth advantage of BA.4 and BA.5
- Immune escape of Omicron subtypes
- Effectiveness of treatments against new variants
- Limited benefit of remdesivir for hospitalised patients
- Vaccine take-up associated with reduced COVID-19 mortality
- ONS results on infectivity, antibodies and (a new study) Long COVID
- WHO’s estimate of worldwide excess deaths
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