Australia head coach Justin Langer’s intense “micro-management” coaching style has apparently not gone down well with a lot of players even as the former opener termed the insinuations as something that “couldn’t be further from truth”. The fissures in the Australian camp have come out in the open after anContinue Reading

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Germany may not give the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to over-65s, but that doesn’t mean it won’t work

Studio Romantic/Shutterstock The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been receiving a lot of attention recently. The EU has been dissatisfied with production hold-ups, while the German health ministry has raised questions over its efficacy in older age groups. As a result, Stiko – the German Standing Committee on Vaccination – has suggestedContinue Reading

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A recent report from Public Health England showed that 83% of people who had had COVID were protected from reinfection five months later. Given that 3.7 million people in the UK have had COVID, should those with antibodies be at the back of the vaccine queue? With the current highContinue Reading

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We’ve all seen them. Those posts shared by friends of friends on Facebook, that jaw-dropping tweet you can scarcely believe was not immediately deleted. Alongside social distancing and Zoom meetings, it seems that one inescapable symptom of the pandemic is the proliferation of conspiracy theories on social media. Conspiracy theoriesContinue Reading

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COVID-19 vaccines do not make women infertile

west_photo/Shutterstock A lot of conspiracy theories and fake news surrounding the pandemic are doing the rounds. Among the disinformation is a suggestion that COVID-19 vaccines might cause infertility in women. This seems to be based on perceived similarities between the coronavirus’s spike protein – which is the key part ofContinue Reading

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