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JBC and Defra: Current environmental monitoring cannot constrain the effect of vaccines on SARS-CoV-2 transmission, 8 April 2021

Paper prepared by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) for SAGE.

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JBC and Defra: Current environmental monitoring cannot constrain the effect of vaccines on SARS-CoV-2 transmission - report for SAGE, 8 April 2021

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Paper by Defra and JBC looking at vaccines and COVID-19 transmission. It was presented at SAGE 86 on 8 April 2021.

The paper is the assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. As new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.

This paper should be read alongside the case study report: Defra and JBC: Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants in England.

These documents are released as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency. These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.

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