Houston is first city to record all major COVID strains, new study finds
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Houston Methodist nurses work on the numerous IV lines that run into a COVID patient s room inside an ICU that has been converting rooms to serve an increase in COVID patients, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Houston s Texas Medical Center. The hospital has released new research showing that Houston is the first U.S. city to record all of the COVID variants.Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
Houston is the nation’s first city to record every major variant of the novel coronavirus many of which are more contagious than the original strain.
Pfizer y Moderna anunciaron que la variante sudafricana redujo la eficacia de sus vacunas contra el coronavirus - Monumental
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Selon Pfizer, le variant sud-africain réduirait la force de son vaccin
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Watch: Chris Hipkins and Dr Ashley Bloomfield provide a COVID-19 update. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - Getty.
After a short, sharp lockdown, Auckland is back under alert level 2 while the rest of New Zealand has dropped to alert level 1.
The moves comes despite three new community cases of COVID-19 being reported on Wednesday. All three, however, are connected to the original trio from the weekend and there is no evidence yet - either from community testing or wastewater testing - of any wider parallel transmission.
Of the 31 close contacts of the original cases, 30 have tested negative while the last is one of the three new positive cases. The test results of more than 360 casual-plus contacts - many from Papatoetoe High School - remain outstanding, but 1159 have tested negative. Contact tracing is now underway for the three new cases.
Pfizer Vaccine Has Weaker Response Against South African COVID Variant, Study Hints
DR CATHERINE SCHUSTER-BRUCE, BUSINESS INSIDER
18 FEBRUARY 2021
Pfizer-BioNTech s COVID-19 vaccine produces a weakened immune response against the contagious variant found in South Africa, which has now also been identified in the US, a new study has suggested.
The vaccine generated a less powerful immune response against a lab-made coronavirus designed to mimic the variant found in South Africa, known as B.1.351, than against the original strain, the companies announced Wednesday.
There was approximately a two-third reduction in how well antibodies produced by Pfizer s vaccine fought against a lab-made variant, according to correspondence published in the