Category: Healthcare
Vitamin D deficiency associated with increased Covid-19 severity and mortality
Among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, pre-infection deficiency of vitamin D was associated with increased disease severity and mortality. More...
Denmark: Omicron BA.2 predicted to cause 100% of infections within 10 days
Denmark’s Statens Serum Institut have published a report on the growth of the BA.2 sub-lineage. More...
UK: Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for week 5, 2022
The latest vaccine surveillance report by the UK Health and Security Agency giving figures for Covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for the period up to week 5, 2022. More...
UK ONS: 2% of the British population have Long Covid
An estimated 1.3 million people living in private households in the UK (2.1% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 2 January 2022. More...
Research: Pathological sequelae of long-haul COVID
A shocking report on the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the human body. More...
Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 invades the brain and activates an Alzheimers-like program
Here, we show that SARS-CoV-2 invades the brains of five patients with COVID-19 and Alzheimers, autism, frontotemporal dementia or no underlying condition by infecting neurons and other cells in the cortex. More...
Canada: Infants more likely to be hospitalized from Omicron
Omicron cases in infants under one year of age are almost seven times more likely to lead to hospitalizations, Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. More...
Omicron: Unexpected cases of children with convulsions
Convulsions may be a sign of the Omicron variant in children with COVID-19
Two boys aged 3 months and 21 months tested positive for the virus and a 14-year-old boy tested negative, but had a cold and family members who had tested positive. More...
UK: NHS vaccine mandate “no longer proportionate”
The UK Health Minister, Sajid Javid, has announced plans to scrap an order forcing all NHS staff in England to get vaccinated against Covid, in a U-turn that will prevent an exodus of many thousands of frontline health workers. More...
UK: Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for week 3, 2022
The latest report by the UK Health and Security Agency giving figures for Covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for the period up to week 3, 2022. More...