We are suffering from the same thing, one of the drawbacks of babysitting for grandkids just after the return to school, a normally fairly vicious combo. We'd quite forgotten how nasty the common cold can be not having caught one since Boxing Day 2019, but ran through the covid test stuff until we got bored with it, no, it's just a cold! The much shorter incubation period is a bit of a giveaway...
Sound sensible to me.
In fact they are not too different for the unvaccinated, but the precise top 5 list might not be exactly the same
I’ve done one, just waiting for the results. Unfortunately my provider was very slow to do so. I assume that it’s likely if I was positive a week or so won’t make much difference.
I checked a couple of days ago, and it seemed that you needed to have "official" symptom to get an NHS test, or a positive lateral flow. Is that wrong? Must admit I only skim-read the information
Still the official current list, but ignoring research results that have been known for weeks/months.
Comments today suggest it was partly because of better immunity outcomes, partly AZ's occasional clotting effect, but also because the MRNA vaccines are less suitable for the developing world because of the cold chain required compared to AZ.
Yes I remember reading that tests were ongoing and South Korea also had a small sample trial of AZ and PZ which performed best with a higher response than two AZ doses so guess it makes sense. I will try and find the UK results.
Additionally, some time ago there were suggestions that a booster of a different type (and most over-50s were AVed) might be more effective, but I haven't heard that has been substantiated
The reason (at least in theory) was that human body will generate anti-adenovirus antibodies after two doses of adenovirus vector vaccine (such as AZ), which would decrease the efficacy if the booster use the same type of adenovirus as carrier. Like the body also learns to recognise and stop the carrier vans, not only the stuffs inside.
