COVID death figures that led to costly lockdowns and national panic may have been completely wrong, a study claims. UK health and statistics authorities allegedly used 14 inconsistent ways to define fatalities. Covid death figures that led to costly lockdowns and national panic may have been completely wrong, according toContinue Reading
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already – and will continue to have – extraordinary health and socioeconomic consequences for the Ukrainian people. One of those consequences will almost certainly be an increased COVID burden. Ukraine reported 37,000 new COVID cases on February 10, 2022 – the country’s highest daily totalContinue Reading
THE UK has reached over 20 million coronavirus infections today after a further 89,717 people tested positive for the virus. Since the start of the pandemic, 20,001,627 cases have been recorded. It’s important to note that some of these infections could be second and even third infections and today’s dataContinue Reading
Esther Barry/Shutterstock It may feel like a long time ago, but it’s only nine months since the UK was in the grips of the “pingdemic”. Back in the summer of 2021, lifting COVID restrictions saw the country’s contact-tracing apps – the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales, the StopCOVIDContinue Reading
For those watching the news, anti-vaccination movements seem to be evolving, with both new tactics and a new watchword – liberty, rather than conspiracy. As 2021 neared its end, protests against mandatory COVID vaccination policies spread across Europe. In city centres, placards and their holders shouted “freedom” and asserted theContinue Reading
PEOPLE with the new stealthy Omicron subvariant show two new Covid symptoms that experts warn shouldn’t be ignored. BA.2, which is super-fast spreading, has become dominant in England, overtaking the original BA.1 Omicron strain. Getty The new Omicron strain may make you feel dizzy[/caption] As Covid testing is scaled back,Continue Reading
WORKERS young and old are at loggerheads like never before as we return to the office. Two in five staff clash with Millennials, aged 25 to 39, for clinging to working from home, a survey for workplace consultants Robert Walters found. Damien McFadden Gen Z: ‘My work-life balance makes meContinue Reading
StanislavSukhin/Shutterstock If you’re worried about COVID, there’s a simple way to boost protection: get vaccinated. But this doesn’t work for everyone. People with weak immune systems – perhaps because of age or a medical condition – don’t respond well to vaccines. For them, COVID still poses a significant risk. ButContinue Reading
The World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic on March 11 2020. In the two years since, countries have diverged on their containment strategies, introducing many different ways of mitigating the virus, to varying effect. Here, four health experts look at what has worked well, what mistakes scientists and policymakersContinue Reading
DAILY coronavirus infections in the UK have hit 71,259 today, new data has revealed. It’s an increase of 56 per cent on last week’s cases, when infections hit 45,656. PA Coronavirus cases have risen in the last few days as experts warn of a new hybrid Covid variant[/caption] Infections haveContinue Reading
