Tag: Omicron
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Evidence suggests vaccination does cut spread of Omicron
Earlier this week I noticed that some anti-vax propagandists have a new line of attack – they aren’t denying that vaccination protects you against severe illness from Covid, but they are saying that it is false to claim that vaccination limits the spread of the disease and hence its also wrong to insist that people […]
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Winning the evolutionary war?
Earlier this week I wrote that there appeared to be no evolutionary biological reason to think the corona virus would evolve at present to be less deadly. It’s starting to look like I was wrong. In fact it looks as though the vaccines have driven selection of changes in the virus’s spike (to evade vaccination-driven […]
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Covid: what do we do now?
(I need to start this by saying I have no medical or epidemiological qualifications and I’m not a statistician, though I do have some knowledge there – so if anyone who is any of these things spots an error, let me know.) Around this time last year I was telling people that I thought Covid-19 […]
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