Looking good, Japan👍
Almost ~80% of population fully vaccinated.
This is what containment looks like (vs 100% Delta)
~100 cases/day, 1-2 deaths/d, among 126 million people
It can be done. @OurWorldInData
Deaths (n=1) yesterday in🇯🇵
Let me be clear as I’ve emphasized in the past. Japan’s success is a #VaccinePlus strategy, exemplifying the wide use of masks and other mitigation measures. There are several countries with higher vaccination rates that haven’t replicated Japan’s containment
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People are asking why not 3rd shots for age <18, i.e. teens?
There is no application yet from a vaccine manufacturer to FDA for age <18, so it can't be recommended yet. That will change soon......
The US markedly lags many countries with boosters, in part because of poor messaging, and lack of priority to get *all* adults with fully restored vaccine effectiveness.
Would help vs Omicron, too. Boosters induce a striking increase in level & breadth of neutralizing antibodies.
Today's @washingtonpost editorial
"The [waning] phenomenon should compel all adults to get a booster shot."
This is only the 5th Variant of Concern since the pandemic began: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and now Omicron.
That it was not named as a Variant of Interest is interesting and raises concern ;-)
There have been thousands of uninteresting #SARSCoV2 variants
Now is not the time to withhold a vital and validated means of boosting our efforts to contain the virus
Each day in the United States, the number of people with waning immunity greatly exceeds those who are getting newly vaccinated. Accordingly, rather than building our wall of population immunity, the United States is suffering attrition.
The UK's path towards improvement as much of Europe is worsening 1. Boosters (3rd shots) are working, as seen by fewer hospital admissions among the age groups receiving them ft.com/content/974487…
2. Infection-acquired immunity playing a role
3, Comparison with many countries throughout Europe experiencing a rapid rise in cases, patients requiring ICU admission and deaths
Just published @ScienceMagazine
The remarkably tight correlation of neutralizing antibody levels with protection from an mRNA vaccine (@moderna_tx) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Titer/Vacccine efficacy
10/78%
100/91%
1000/96%
These are important data, fully concordant with 2 recent studies, reinforcing why boosters are essential and why it is likely that a 3rd dose will be long lasting (1 year or longer) @LancetMicrobe all vaccines, all variants thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…
A 25-50 fold increase in levels of neutralizing antibody of the booster (3rd dose) compared with the 2nd, and more rapidly generated medrxiv.org/content/10.110…