I believe there are now some questions over the Pfizer vaccine and how it may affect the immune system Note this isn't a peer reviewed study.
www.fr24news.com/a/2021/05/research-suggests-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-reprograms-innate-immune-responses-fr.html
I'm sure during this mornings reads I read that the India variant in the UK has gone from 1% to 11% of the total cases in a short time but I can't find it again.
And for any tech twitterers out there this tweet brings together info to describes how mutations (esp of the Indian variant) combine to kill T cells and allow fungal development. how the Indian variant.
twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1392051355460767746
and another which tells you more about the spread of the Indian variant. Tweet 9 shows how rapidly it is growing in the UK, which demonstrates why Matt Handcock has said they are concerned about it.
twitter.com/trvrb/status/1392132862338469890
Lastly for those who like graphs this page is full of info, most of which I don't understand, but you can "play" the map graphic to dee thee emergence of various "clades" which I'm sure it will give hours of amusement.
All very technical, all (AFAIK) unproven and all a bit scary.
Oh, and I was reading last night that they are fairly confident that the boffins can in theory tell at the point of hospitalisation whether a case is likely to become serious or not.
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