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Covid London: Just half of carers vaccinated in Lambeth care home with South Africa variant outbreak

Revealed: Just 50% of care home staff have been vaccinated in London borough where nursing home is at centre of South African Covid variant outbreak Ten residents and 13 staff infected with the South Africa variant at a single care home in Lambeth, London  Outbreak is thought to have been triggered by someone who travelled… Read More »

Resistance testing does not improve viral suppression after first-line failure in South Africa and Uganda

Resistance testing to trigger switching to a second-line HIV treatment regimen did not improve virological suppression nine months later in a large randomised study carried out in South Africa and Uganda, Dr Mark Siedner of Massachusetts General Hospital reported to the 2021 virtual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) on Monday. The study findings… Read More »