A 40-year-old tech boss has told how he watched helplessly as two patients died in front of him as he fought coronavirus in intensive care. Jozef Wallis, a fit and healthy father-of-two, began feeling ill after a night out in the pubs around London Bridge station two weeks ago. Despite suffering a raging fever and … Read more
An intensive care specialist has described how one person with coronavirus could infect up to 59,000 others – as the virus is more than twice as infectious as flu. Dr Hugh Montgomery, a professor of intensive care medicine at University College London, explained how the virus could be passed from one person to thousands as … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Coronavirus cases in the UK are rapidly climbing, and the spiralling outbreak yesterday prompted Boris Johnson to take the drastic step of advising against all social contact in a dramatic measure to delay the spread of infection. But despite these distancing measures, the government estimates many more people will catch the disease which has so … Read more
So how quickly do the symptoms come on? Dr Clare Gerada, 60, a GP in Lambeth, South London, and former chair of the Royal College of GPs, tested positive last week. Here, she describes how rapidly she fell ill . . . Just a little out of sorts was how I felt at first. Initially, … Read more
A Colorado nurse who contracted the deadly coronavirus said her illness has been nothing like she expected. Lisa Merck, 50, from Crested Butte, said it was after returning from a two-week trip to Hawaii with her husband that she began feeling sick. She said it started with sniffles, before advancing to left-side body aches, shortness … Read more
‘Iced water trickled down my spine’: Nadine Dorries describes emotional moment she tested positive for coronavirus and feared for her 84-year-old mother’s life as health minister reveals they are both on the mend Tory Health minister Nadine Dorries tested positive for coronavirus last week She said she felt ‘iced water trickling down my spine’ when … Read more
Maria Menounos is urging the public not to dismiss symptoms as merely ‘work stress’ as she did prior to her brain tumor diagnosis. The 40-year-old Sirius XM host revealed in July 2017 that she had a mass the size of a golf ball and that she’d undergone surgery to remove it. In a recent appearance … Read more
Connor Reed, a 25-year-old expat from Llandudno in North Wales, has worked in a school in Wuhan, China, for almost a year. In November he became the first British man to catch the coronavirus. From coughs and aches to burning up and spending the night in hospital, here’s how he beat the illness that is … Read more
Reddit boss describes TikTok as ‘spyware’ and ‘fundamentally parasitic’ as the controversial video app is set to surpass 10 million users in the UK by 2021 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman was speaking on a panel at San Francisco conference Said he actively encourages people to not install the app on their handsets He compared it spyware and … Read more