Impact of Delta on viral burden and vaccine effectiveness against new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the UK

URL

https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/files/coronavirus/covid-19-infection-survey/finalfinalcombinedve20210816.pdf

Authors

Koen B. Pouwels, Emma Pritchard, Philippa C. Matthews, Nicole Stoesser, David W. Eyre, Karina-Doris Vihta, Thomas House, Jodie Hay, John I. Bell, John N Newton, Jeremy Farrar, Derrick Crook, Duncan Cook, Emma Rourke, Ruth Studley, Tim Peto, Ian Diamond, A. Sarah Walker, and the COVID-19 Infection Survey Team

Published Date

August 1, 2021

Organization

University of Oxford

Key Excerpts

“Abstract: … With Delta, infections occurring following two vaccinations had similar peak viral burden to those in unvaccinated individuals.”

Additional Information

PCM received funding from the Wellcome Trust [110110/Z/15/Z].

For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

Medium

document

Topics

breakthrough cases