Data showed more than 50,000 reinfections occurring every week.
from the UKHSA found the effectiveness of two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is what most people in the U.K. have received, dropped from 50% against omicron to virtually no effect 20 weeks later.
Mokdad said for those who weren't infected with the original omicron variant during the last wave, this also increases the risk of reinfection because contracting the virus will have acted like a natural booster shot for most healthy individuals.Experts say behavioral changes after restrictions were lifted are also likely playing a role in the rise of reinfections.
The announcement applied only to England, which is home to 56 million of the U.K.’s 67 million people, the Associated Press reported in February.People queue outside a coronavirus disease testing facility in central London, Jan. 2, 2022. "Suddenly, they lifted these mandates," Mokdad said."People are tired and have changed their behavior. Suddenly, you have 30% or 40% susceptible because of waning immunity and the fact they have not been exposed to BA.1, and BA.2 is circulating, then you see this rapid increase in cases.When Johnson lifted the mandates, he gave a speech to the House of Commons in which he stated he wanted England to pivot away from preventing COVID-19 and"learn to live with this virus.
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