Category: Health
Cats and dogs may need Covid-19 vaccine
Norfolk scientists have said Covid vaccinations may need to be given to our pets. More...
Israel: Young children are particularly susceptible to the new coronavirus variant
Israel has said it is confident that vaccines are effective against the UK strain of coronavirus, but dampened hopes of a swift reopening of schools as it warned that young children were particularly susceptible to the new variant. More...
Greece approves drug Colchicine in the fight Against Covid-19
Greece approved colchicine, an inexpensive medicine for heart diseases, to be included in the protocol of oral treatments for patients with Covid-19. More...
Quebec researchers say they have found an effective drug to fight COVID-19 – colchicine
A team of researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute believe they have found an effective weapon against COVID-19: Colchicine, an oral tablet already known and used for other diseases. More...
If just 10% of coronavirus patients suffer from Long Covid….
The USA, with 25,700,000 infections so far, would have 2,570,000 long haulers
The UK, with 3,600,000 infections far, would have 360,000 long haulers
Germany, with 2,100,000 infections so far, would have 210,000 long haulers
France, with 3,000,000 infections so far, would have 300,000 long haulers
Spain, with 2,600,000 infections so far would have 260,000 long haulers
Russia, with 3,700,000 infections so far, would have 370,000 long haulers
Brazil, with 8,800,000 infections so far, would have 880,000 long haulers
Planet Earth, with nearly 100,000,000 infections so far, would have 10,000,000 long haulers
Lancet: “Our findings showed that 76% of patients reported at least one symptom at 6 months after symptom onset, and the proportion was higher in women.” More...
NZ: Travellers are quarantined by planeload “because we know that is one of sources of infection is the plane journey itself”
Chris Hipkins, NZ Covid-19 Response Minister: “The policy was to try and keep planeloads of people together in managed isolation because transmission within planes has been a problem. More...
SARS-CoV-2: nearly 100m infections, 2m deaths and the global CFR has stopped falling
John Hopkins University figures for 24th January 2021:
Large national outbreak of COVID-19 linked to air travel in Ireland, summer 2020
Fifty-nine laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 from six Irish health regions were linked to an international flight into Ireland in summer 2020
An outbreak case was defined as positive PCR for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (naso-pharyngeal swab) in either a passenger or a contact of a passenger. More...
New Zealand woman tests positive for coronavirus 2 days AFTER her quarantine period ended. B117 suspected
The new case of Covid-19 in the NZ community is a 56-year-old woman. More...
Major outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 South African Variant 501YV2 in Ostend, Belgium
Belgium has declared its first major outbreak of the South African variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 [501Y.V2], More...