MORE than 1,000 flights have been canceled so far on Saturday as travelers descend on airports for the Memorial Day weekend. The latest cancellations add to an already chaotic weekend at the country’s transit centers as more Americans are reportedly planning to travel over the holiday than they did lastContinue Reading
bbernard/Shutterstock Graham was a healthy 34-year-old until he developed COVID in July 2020. Along with his wife and children, he had a fever, a cough, breathlessness, profound fatigue and he lost his sense of smell. But instead of getting better like the rest of his family, Graham found that hisContinue Reading
YIKES! Monkeypox! WTF is all that about? Horrible blisters all over your face. A disease from Africa which has decided to come over here for a bit. Transmissible from animal to human and vice versa. Don’t s**g any monkeys, then. And if you must, then wear protection. Monkeypox is transmissibleContinue Reading
PhotobyTawat/Shutterstock The AstraZeneca vaccine, developed in partnership with the University of Oxford, was one of the first vaccines available for use in the UK and around the world during the COVID pandemic. More than two billion doses have been distributed to at least 170 countries, with around 50 million dosesContinue Reading
Josep Suria/Shutterstock As new waves of omicron infections continue to hit around the world, it’s becoming clearer that COVID is here to stay. As such, in the years to come, vaccination – both first courses and booster doses – will likely remain necessary to brace global communities against the worstContinue Reading
Basicdog/Shutterstock While we might not be hearing the daily COVID numbers anymore, the virus hasn’t gone away. In the UK alone, thousands of new cases continue to be recorded every day. Meanwhile, there’s a very large group of people for whom the virus hasn’t gone away in a different senseContinue Reading
I Wei Huang/Shutterstock We all know a few of those lucky people who, somehow, have managed to avoid ever catching COVID. Perhaps you’re one of them. Is this a Marvel-esque superpower? Is there any scientific reason why a person might be resistant to becoming infected, when the virus seems toContinue Reading
COVID boffin Jonathan Van-Tam missed out on his knighthood ceremony — after catching the virus. The popular professor, known as JVT, could not make Tuesday’s event to make him a Sir because he was isolating at home. Covid boffin Jonathan Van-Tam missed out on his knighthood ceremony — after catchingContinue Reading
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. But it’s only in recent days, in May 2022, that the secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has reported its first confirmed cases of the virus. While it may seem somewhat astounding that a country has managedContinue Reading
matimix/Shutterstock During the COVID pandemic, lockdowns and school closures brought about significant changes to children’s opportunities to be active. While the precise rules varied around the world, most countries experienced some level of restrictions for a time. Unsurprisingly, when everything is closed and the guidance is to stay at homeContinue Reading