Tag: COVID-Variants

All Vaccines Perform Worse Than Natural Immunity Against COVID: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

While it has become a fact that vaccines have performed drastically worse during the Omicron era, a recent meta-analysis accounting for dozens of studies reveals that natural immunity offers better protection against reinfection, symptomatic infections, and severe disease from all COVID-19 variants than all the COVID vaccines. In addition, natural immunity offered the advantage of…


COVID-19 Cases Start to Climb Again as Variants Spread

OTTAWA—Canada’s chief public health officer says new COVID-19 cases are starting to tick back up after a month of decline. The “moderate increase” at the national level noted by Dr. Theresa Tam is in keeping with models forecasting a spike in cases over the next two months unless public-health measures remain in place to combat…


COVID-19 Cases Climbing Again as Variants Spread, Says Tam

OTTAWA—Canada’s chief public health officer says new COVID-19 cases are starting to tick back up after a month of decline. The “moderate increase” at the national level noted by Dr. Theresa Tam is in keeping with models forecasting a spike in cases over the next two months unless public-health measures remain in place to combat…


Canada Aims to Double Genomic Surveillance for Variants of Concern

VANCOUVER—A national agency leading a network of labs hunting for variants of COVID-19 is aiming to double its efforts across Canada as part of a global surveillance initiative to keep up with new strains that may become more prevalent. Viruses naturally mutate over time, and several COVID -19 variants of concern have been identified, including…