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Evaluating vaccines and chasing down ‘breakthrough infections’ are key to success Data generated from Sisonke study will prove to be invaluable to understanding of vaccines and their effectiveness 23 May 2021 - 17:47
The vaccination of health workers through the Sisonke study is done but the work is not, and chasing down “breakthrough infections” when people get Covid after vaccination is a priority, said the scientists in charge, profs Glenda Gray and Linda-Gail Bekker.
“Sisonke’s main cause was to prevent healthcare workers from getting very sick or dying. It was never about preventing infections. That is a bonus. There is no 100% prophylactic vaccine today,” said Bekker.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, while tabling his department’s budget vote and policy statement, told parliamentarians that the country was facing a third wave.
The study by Tel Aviv University and Israel s largest healthcare provider compared 400 unvaccinated people infected with COVID-19 to 400 partially or fully vaccinated people who also had the virus.
Michigan confirms first case of South African COVID variant in Jackson County
Variant first detected in South Africa in October; case in Michigan identified in a child
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LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced that the first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.351 has been identified in a child in Jackson County.
The health department did not say how the boy was infected but a case investigation is underway to determine close contacts and if there are additional cases associated.
This new variant was originally detected in South Africa in October 2020 and shares some mutations with the B117 variant. The first case of the B117 variant originally detected in the United Kingdom was identified in Washtenaw County.