Gentle People:

 Today, Thursday, June 10, 2021, I received my second protective vaccination shot against the Covid 19 virus. The question now is, am I in the clear? Am I protected against the COVID 19 disease? What about the COVID VARIANTS? 

 I've read that variants transmit 60% faster than the original Sars-Cov-2,... and so it's back to the research laboratories and to the hospitals to discover the truth.

Here are some questions for curious young journalists. 

1. Where are the variants today?

2. How much damage are they causing?

3. How effective are the current vaccines against the new variants?

4. How many Covid cases now exist in our Canadian hospitals and in hospitals around the world?

5. What is the (WHO) the "World Health Organization" reporting about the pandemic?

Go find the answers all you curious young people and good luck!           

Thanks for Reading!  

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Do vaccines work against both variants?

On Friday, government scientists at Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium and the National Centre for Disease Control published a report which said the Delta variant could be caught by people who had already had the disease or been only partially vaccinated.

The report warned that "prior infections … and partial vaccination are insufficient impediments to its spread, as seen in Delhi, and strong public health response will be needed globally for its containment".

More studies are still underway, but there is some promising evidence from the UK that AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines provided a similar level of protection against the Delta variant as they did against the earlier Alpha variant.

A study published on May 22 showed two AstraZeneca doses were 60 per cent effective against the Delta variant, while Pfizer provided 88 per cent effectiveness.

Less is known about how effective the vaccines are against the Kappa strain that is more prominent in Victoria's current outbreak, but experts have said it's likely to be similar to the Delta variant.

ABC / Reuters