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Judith Heaney

Researcher at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Publications -  40
Citations -  2974

Judith Heaney is an academic researcher from University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Biology. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1304 citations. Previous affiliations of Judith Heaney include UCL Institute of Child Health & University College Hospital.

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Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) compared with alpha (B.1.1.7) variants of concern: a cohort study.

Katherine A Twohig, +607 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the severity of the delta variant compared with the alpha variant by determining the relative risk of hospital attendance outcomes and found that outbreaks of the Delta variant in unvaccinated populations might lead to a greater burden on health-care services than the alpha variants.
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Pandemic peak SARS-CoV-2 infection and seroconversion rates in London frontline health-care workers.

TL;DR: There was a trend towards a higher infection rate in participants younger than 30 years compared to those older than 50 years, with a reduction in log odds of positivity by 0·035 per year, and the mean duration of SARS-CoV-2 detection was 29 days.
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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is an immune escape variant with an altered cell entry pathway

Brian J. Willett, +672 more
- 07 Jul 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this article , the authors demonstrate substantial evasion of neutralization by Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 variants in vitro using sera from individuals vaccinated with ChAdOx1, BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273.529.