Coronavirus Update 127: Delta Variant and Vaccines

Professor Roger Seheult, MD of MedCram with an update on the effectiveness of four major vaccines against the delta variant of COVID-19: Pfizer / BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson and Johnson Vaccine (This video was recorded on July 19, 2021).

See the video Dr. Seheult references: 10 Tips if you Get COVID-19 here: https://youtu.be/vN30emwcNS4


TOPICS IN THIS VIDEO INCLUDE:

00:00 General overview of SARS-CoV-2 variants
02:44 Characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant (B.1.617.2)
03:21 Preliminary data on delta variant infection rates by age & risk of severe infection
05:14 How delta variant is affecting COVID-19 case numbers in the UK, Israel, and United States
06:55 How do the COVID-19 vaccines stack up against delta variant? Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
12:20 Data on effectiveness of Moderna vaccine against the delta variant
12:42 Data on effectiveness of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against the delta variant
13:41 Information on Johnson & Johnson vaccine effectiveness against related SARS-CoV-2 variants (no current data on delta variant)
15:29 Vaccination rates across the United States
17:04 What to do if you’re infected with COVID-19?


Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at https://www.medcram.com
He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.


LINKS / REFERENCES:

5 Things To Know About the Delta Variant (Yale Medicine) | https://www.yalemedicine.org/n....ews/5-things-to-know

REACT-1 round 12 report: resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in England associated with increased frequency of the Delta variant (Imperial College) | https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/....bitstream/10044/1/89

SARS-CoV-2 Delta VOC in Scotland: demographics, risk of hospital admission, and vaccine effectiveness (The Lancet) | https://www.thelancet.com/jour....nals/lancet/article/

Vaccines highly effective against B.1.617.2 variant after 2 doses (GOV.UK) | https://www.gov.uk/government/....news/vaccines-highly

Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against hospital admission with the Delta (B.1.617.2) variant (Public Health England) | https://khub.net/documents/135....939561/479607266/Eff

Moderna Provides a Clinical Update on the Neutralizing Activity of its COVID-19 Vaccine on Emerging Variants Including the Delta Variant First Identified in India (Moderna) | https://investors.modernatx.co....m/news-releases/news

How much protection COVID-19 vaccines give you against the Delta variant, according to the best available data (Business Insider) | https://www.businessinsider.co....m/delta-variant-covi

The total number and mass of SARS-CoV-2 virions (NIH) | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p....mc/articles/PMC76853

Covid vaccine: How many people in the UK have been vaccinated so far? (BBC News) | https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55274833

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