Category: Coronavirus
Coronavirus News
UK: 1 in 20 secondary school pupils have experienced Long Covid
A new UK ONS survey out today reveals the horrifying extent of Covid damage to Britain’s school kids, with one in twenty secondary school pupils and one in fifty primary school pupils experiencing Long Covid. More...
Pfizer: Paxlovid not effective in reducing symptoms in standard risk patients
Pfizer: “An updated analysis from 1,153 patients showed a non-significant 51% relative risk reduction”. More...
Preprint: Long COVID-19 liver manifestation in children
“We report two distinct patterns of potentially long COVID-19 liver manifestations in children with common clinical, radiological, and histopathological characteristics after a thorough workup excluded other known etiologies.” More...
Monkeypox vaccine MVA repurposed for Covid-19
A new comparison study in PNAS from NIAID intramural scientists clearly shows that for SARS-CoV-2, nasal vaccination – particularly in two doses – has clear advantages over muscular delivery in laboratory mice. More...
Portugal: Daily Covid-19 deaths now exceeding those of last winter wave
Portugal’s BA.5 wave is showing just how difficult things might get in Europe over the next few months, as Covid-19 cases and deaths are now close to, or have already exceeded, those of the winter wave of 2021/2022. More...
UK: Summer Covid-19 wave kicks off
There’s a lot of evidence accumulating in both UK government figures and from other sources that suggests a new summer wave of Covid-19 may have kicked off in the UK, possibly spurred on by the Jubilee celebrations in early June 2022. More...
Denmark: BA.5 sequences up by 6.5% in one week
The latest SARS-CoV-2 sequencing figures from Denmark show a marked increase for Omicron subvariant BA.5 (shown in red), which is up by 6.54% in one week, from 10.34% to 16.88%. More...
Israel: Fifth Covid-19 vaccination under consideration
A fifth round of Covid vaccinations is under consideration in Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post. More...
The peer reviewed child vaccine study that Twitter is trying to censor
We provide a link to a JAMA network peer-reviewed study that Twitter would prefer you didn’t read. More...
Portugal: 20% of all Covid-19 pandemic infections have occurred since BA.5 was first reported
The almost 990,000 confirmed cases in April and May 2022 represent 21% of infections since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, while the 1,455 deaths constitute about 6% of total deaths. More...