Category: Healthcare
EMA: Transverse Myelitis listed as potential side effect of AstraZeneca and Janssen Covid vaccines
The Europe Medicines Agency has recommended adding a rare spinal inflammation called transverse myelitis as a side effect of AstraZeneca’s and Janssen’s (Johnson and Johnson) COVID-19 vaccines. More...
Spain: Healthcare workers should sacrifice themselves for the public good
A Spanish judge has ruled “health workers had the obligation to sacrifice their right to life and integrity, even without masks, for the benefit of the life and integrity of the rest of the population.” More...
UK: Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for week 2, 2022
A new report out today by the UK Health and Security Agency gives figures for Covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for the period in which Omicron became dominant in Britain. More...
Canada: Quebec to force unvaccinated to pay ‘significant’ financial penalty *1 UPDATE*
Quebec, in Canada, will charge a health tax to residents who are not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Denmark: Over 90% of Covid infections are fully vaccinated *27 UPDATES*
Denmark’s SSI now publishes raw data for new Covid cases and hospitalizations by vaccination status. More...
Finland: 50% of infected adults have long COVID
Long COVID could become one of Finland’s largest groups of chronic diseases, according to a Finnish government Minister. More...
ICU doctor to UK Health Secretary: “I do not want to have a vaccination” *3 UPDATES*
Steve James, a consultant anaesthetist at King’s College Hospital in London who has worked in the ICU since early 2020 treating Covid patients, told UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid why he did not believe in vaccination. More...
Vegetarian diet may provide more protection against severe Covid than triple vaccination
After adjusting for important confounders, participants who reported following plant-based diets had a 73% lower odds of moderate Covid, and those following plant-based or pescatarian diets had 59% lower odds of severe Covid. More...
UKHSA: Vaccine effectiveness drops to just 40% – 50% ten weeks after booster dose
Two to 4 weeks after a booster dose, vaccine effectiveness ranged from around 65% to 75%, dropping to 55% to 70% at 5 to 9 weeks and 40% to 50% from 10+ weeks after the booster. More...
Faroe Islands: 63% breakthrough in triple vaccinated heathcare workers
21 out of 33 hospital employees from the National Hospital in the Faroe Islands were infected with Omikron at a private meeting in early December. More...