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COVID vaccine weekly: tensions run high over the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
Unai Huizi Photography/Shutterstock It’s been a rollercoaster week for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which has been authorised for use in the EU while simultaneously being at the heart two high-profile European disputes. The EU and AstraZeneca have publicly fallen out over delays to the EU’s order of COVID vaccines, which theContinue Reading
Premier League To Trial Concussion Subs From February | Football News
The Premier League will trial the use of concussion substitutes from February 6 in response to growing concerns about the damage caused by head injuries in football, it was announced on Friday. Premier League and Football Association chiefs have agreed that teams will be able to make two permanent concussionContinue Reading
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
Should people who have recently had COVID be vaccinated?
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
Conspiracy theories: why are they thriving in the pandemic?
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
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
AstraZeneca, Germany and over-65s: how to interpret confusing vaccine data
Germany has recently announced that it will not offer the AstraZeneca COVID-19 jab to over-65s due to insufficient data about its efficacy in that age group. Meanwhile, initial data from Israel seemed to suggest that 14 days after the Pfizer/BioNTech first vaccine dose, patients only had a 33% reduced chanceContinue Reading
Pakistan vs South Africa: Enjoying My Time In The Dressing Room, Says Fawad Alam | Cricket News
Fawad Alam was named Player of the Match for his knock of 109 runs in the first innings.© AFP Pakistan batsman Fawad Alam, who scored a century in the first innings to put the hosts on top in the first Test against South Africa, said on Friday he is enjoyingContinue Reading
Making hardware ‘open source’ can help us fight future pandemics – here’s how we get there
elenabsl/Shutterstock In factories and industrial estates across the world, exceptional efforts are being made to ensure hospitals have ventilators, and logistics firms have freezers and refrigerators. Behind the scenes, this manufacturing drive has been taking place on an epic, unprecedented scale. In some places, it’s also been horrendously inefficient. SomeContinue Reading
Virgin Orbit launched a rocket from a plane – here’s how
Lift off. Virgin Orbit/Greg Robinson, CC BY-SA Earlier this month, ten cubesats – small, cheap satellites weighing about a kilogram each – were sent into orbit around Earth. With almost 1,500 of these small satellites launched so far, adding another ten might seem trivial. But this was no ordinary launch.Continue Reading