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Jan 14, 2023 β’ 6 tweets β’ 3 min read
Our latest SARS-CoV-2 serosurveillance data for England with @NHSBT (Oct-Dec 2022) is now out in the @UKHSA vaccine surveillance report.
gov.uk/government/pubβ¦
London still holds the crown π for highest seropositive region at a whopping 88.5%, but all regions showing increases and likely to go higher after Christmas increase
Aug 6, 2022 β’ 6 tweets β’ 2 min read
After a brief hiatus...our SARS-CoV-2 serosurveillance data is now updated in the @UKHSA vaccine surveillance reports: gov.uk/government/pubβ¦
Main thing you'll see is just shy of 70% of individuals have evidence of prior infection (positive for anti-nucleocapsid antibodies) π
When we split this by age, we see that younger groups (17-29 and 30-39) almost ~80% have been infected, whilst older age groups are lower, but generally all groups have shown a steady increase since Omicron emerged
Apr 22, 2022 β’ 22 tweets β’ 7 min read
New #SIRENπ¨ preprint out (and also being presented at #ECCMID2022 this week)...we did a cross-sectional analysis of ~6,000 SIREN participants after their vaccinations
Thread on our results and few interesting ones...π§΅
medrxiv.org/content/10.110β¦@UKHSA@SMHopkins
First up, SIREN is an incredibly big research project...so we were able to select samples from participants that provided a baseline sample (done when enrolled into SIREN) but after they were vaccinated, giving us an initial pool of ~6,000 participants...