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So when WILL Covid chaos end? Booster vaccine immunity weakens after just 10 WEEKS

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Britain could face another year-and-a-half of Covid misery despite a hugely successful vaccination drive, scientists have warned on the back of data showing immunity from booster jabs starts to fade after just 10 weeks. 

Early real-world analysis of the UK’s immunisation scheme shows the efficacy of Pfizer’s top-up dose at preventing symptoms drops to as low as 35 per cent two-and-a-half months after getting a third dose, among people already given a full course of AstraZeneca.

But immunity levels appear

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Reinfection rate in Omicron epicenter in South Africa soars from below one to 3.5 in just weeks

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The reproduction rate in the South African province at the epicenter of the Omicron outbreak has surged from below one to over three in less than a month as U.S. deaths soar to their highest level in three months.

Public health officials in Gauteng province looked at the R0 (R-naught value) – a mathematical term that indicates how contagious an infectious disease is.

The number that follows ‘R’ indicates the average number of people who will contract COVID-19 from an

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How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives

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In a sagging desk drawer crammed with Magic Markers that have lost their magic, a rubber-banded collection of expired passports, and user manuals for printers I no longer use or even own, I keep a stash of decades-old wallet-size leather-bound appointment books marked with now meaningless meetings, obsolete assignations, assorted obligations, and inscrutable notes to self: Dept mtg, lunch w/Leah, S to dentist, cancel $14.9. The books have printed, on the left-hand page, the days of the week from

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UK daily Covid hospitalisations hit 1,000 for first time in six weeks

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Britain’s daily Covid hospitalisations today breached 1,000 for the first time in six weeks but SAGE scientists insisted it was ‘highly unlikely’ that the NHS would be overwhelmed by the virus this winter even without restrictions in advice that justifies No10’s bold decision to reject immediately resorting to ‘Plan B’. 

Department of Health bosses also posted another 49,298 infections as cases jumped a tenth in a week, and deaths rose by a quarter to 180. 

But Boris Johnson echoed the

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Gabby Petito’s parents are seen collecting her remains in Wyoming three weeks after body was found

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The grieving parents of Gabby Petito have collected their murdered daughter’s remains – six weeks after fugitive fiancé Brian Laundrie dumped her body at a remote campsite in Wyoming.

Gabby Petito’s ashes will finally be returned to her hometown in after her parents had her remains cremated in Wyoming 

Faces etched with pain, the family made their way out of the Valley Mortuary in Jackson, Wyoming, on Saturday morning clutching an urn containing the ashes of the 22-year-old van life

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