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- “Immunity doesn't last forever:” Covid-19 boosters set to become routine https://www.axios.com/covid-boosters-routine-0a5e0f06-b2e8-4e0c-ac0d-085507e3d404.html 12 comments
- Manaus needs to be humanity's wakeup call: there is no such thing as herd immunity and Covid is becoming more lethal. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/01/variant-covid-among-triggers-grim-surge-manaus-brazil 4 comments worldnews
- UK survey finds one fifth of people are likely to refuse Coronavirus vaccine when one becomes available, with 38% believing that natural immunity – from having the infection and recovering – is better than immunity from vaccines. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/a-fifth-of-people-likely-to-refuse-covid-vaccine-uk-survey-finds 35 comments worldnews
- Delivery of COVID vaccines directly to the lungs and nose can stop SARS-CoV-2 infections in their tracks, according to a trio of new studies in monkeys. The results also raise hopes that mucosal vaccines that offer ‘sterilising’ immunity — complete blockage of infection — could become a reality. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04003-4 8 comments science
- Only 58% of people across Europe were willing to get a COVID-19 vaccine once it becomes available, 16% were neutral, and 26% were not planning to vaccinate. Such a low vaccination response could make it exceedingly difficult to reach the herd immunity through vaccination. https://pmj.bmj.com/content/early/2020/10/27/postgradmedj-2020-138903?t=au 2528 comments science
- Only 58% of people across Europe were willing to get a COVID-19 vaccine once it becomes available, 16% were neutral, and 26% were not planning to vaccinate. Such a low vaccination response could make it exceedingly difficult to reach the herd immunity through vaccination. https://pmj.bmj.com/content/early/2020/10/27/postgradmedj-2020-138903?t=au 2 comments science
- Could post-COVID-19 tourists become less adventurous. Feeling vulnerable to COVID-19 activates a so-called 'behavioral immune system' that in turn makes people engage in various behaviors that helped our ancestors survive when facing a disease https://www.cbs.dk/en/the-press/news/could-post-covid-19-tourists-become-less-adventurous 3 comments science