Beeston lifts lid on Covid horror as number of infections rises among people aged 40-79 | United Kingdom | News

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ITV journalist Mr Beeston has just recovered from the fatal illness. He reported that government data in the Vaccine Surveillance Report shows that “the vast majority of patients in the 40-79 age group have been vaccinated twice.” Part of the explanation, Mr Beeston said, is because leading scientists claim “the efficacy of the vaccine is not as good as we would like in the delta variant”.

Mr Beeston went on to say that due to an increase in infections among vaccinators, “we are facing a difficult fall and hospitals may once again find themselves under serious pressure”.

Preston added on Twitter: “I was surprised by what appears to be a high prevalence of autopsies.

“It is now important to remember that severe disease is less common among those with the vaccine than among those who have not been vaccinated.

“But I am surprised that these statistics have received so little attention and generated so little discussion.

“If going back to school leads to a renewed boom in England, and data from Leicestershire and Scotland suggest that it may, then we are facing a difficult autumn and hospitals may once again find themselves under serious pressure.”

The news comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to announce England’s Covid winter plan on Tuesday.

This will include emergency measures that will be implemented if the NHS becomes overwhelmed.

The news comes after research showing that about 40 percent of people with weakened immune systems have a reduced antibody response, and possibly less protection, after two doses of the vaccine.

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The research also revealed that 11 percent of those with compromised immune systems failed to produce any detectable antibodies four weeks after two doses of the vaccine.

The Octave study was published as a preprint in The Lancet and was funded by the Medical Research Council and coordinated by experts at the University of Birmingham.

Speaking to the BBC about the low antibody rate in those with compromised immune systems who had been vaccinated, Professor Ian Mackins, head of the Octave trial and from the University of Glasgow, said: Finding a low or undetectable immune response after a double dose of the vaccine, we encourage that this number is not higher.

“However, it is possible that partial protection could be clinically beneficial.

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This is something we will be watching closely.”

Also speaking to the BBC, Professor Eleanor Riley, an expert in immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Edinburgh, said: “Since T cells are particularly effective in preventing us from developing serious illness and needing hospital treatment, we would expect that the vaccine could still provide Great protection for most of these highly vulnerable people.”

UK records from the 24-hour period from Friday to Saturday show 37,622 new infections from the deadly pathogen, and another 147 deaths linked to the coronavirus.

For the entire UK since the start of the pandemic, 133,988 people have died within 28 days of testing for coronavirus, and there have been 7,168,806 laboratory-confirmed infections.

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