China is currently in the midst of a severe wave of COVID infections and deaths. We don’t know exactly how bad it is because of significant gaps in official reporting, but by all indications, things are dire. News reports suggest hospitals and mortuaries are overflowing. So how did China getContinue Reading
Prostock-studio/Shutterstock By the end of 2022, more than 650 million COVID infections had been reported to the World Health Organization. With the true number likely much higher, and the tally increasing by hundreds of thousands every week, the scientific community has been focused on understanding the impact of COVID onContinue Reading
NadyaEugene/Shutterstock Long COVID is the patient-preferred term used to describe symptoms lasting more than four weeks after a COVID-19 infection. Children and young people can also suffer from long COVID following even a mild infection with the virus. The latest figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics show anContinue Reading
Helena Nechaeva/Shutterstock A vast combination of microorganisms live in our gut, including bacteria, fungi and viruses. Collectively, we refer to this as the the microbiome. Despite their tiny size, these microbes have significant effects on our health and wellbeing. In fact, the microbiome is often referred to as the “secondContinue Reading
HARROWING images from China show long lines of coffins and body bags being taken into crematoriums as the Covid “mega-tsunami” takes hold. The government has now stopped releasing official daily figures for infections and deaths, but it’s estimated at that least 5000 people are dying a day. Body bags beingContinue Reading
In February 2022, the UK government abandoned its remaining pandemic restrictions in favour of “living with COVID”. This approach relies largely on vaccines protecting people from severe disease. However, not everyone benefits equally from vaccines. Former “shielders” – clinically vulnerable people at heightened risk from COVID – number over 3.6Continue Reading
Krakenimages.com/Shutterstock There’s a lot to be jolly about this Christmas. COVID has been significantly, although not completely, “defanged”, thanks to vaccines and treatments. Christmas dos, nativity plays and New Years Eve parties are all back on the festive calendar. However, the return to “normal” brings with it the return ofContinue Reading
CHINA faces new 4.2 million cases and 5000 deaths a day as the “thermonuclear” Covid surge takes hold of the country. Crematoriums are reportedly already working 24 hours to cope with the soaring number of dead as huge queues of hearses line the streets. AP A body being loaded inContinue Reading
A LONG line of hearses has been seen outside a crematorium in China as the Covid death toll rockets. Chilling video shoes the vehicles queueing at the Beijing crematorium, which is reportedly overwhelmed with a 20-day backlog as the “thermonuclear” outbreak ravages China. The long line of hearses outside theContinue Reading
IT’S supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year – but what if it doesn’t go to plan? Fabulous meets three women whose Christmas Days weren’t quite as they’d imagined… We meet three women whose Christmas Days weren’t quite as they’d imaginedJacquie Boyd at Debut Art ‘I foundContinue Reading
