BREAKING NEWS: Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine prevents 96% of infections against original strain of the virus including 86.3% of UK ‘super-covid’ cases – but is only 55.4% effective against the South Africa variant Novavax’s vaccine uses synthesized pieces of the surface protein that the coronavirus uses to invade human cells and spurs antibody production In a … Read more
Germany has recorded a sharp rise in coronavirus cases as the country’s top disease expert warned a third wave of the disease has started. There were 14,356 new cases of Covid reported in Germany on Thursday, the Robert Koch Institute said, up from 9,146 cases the previous day. Deaths also increased from 300 reported Wednesday … Read more
Long Covid is often worse for patients who only had mild symptoms of the virus and were never hospitalised, top doctor says Dr Melissa Heightman says hospitalised patients tend to avoid long Covid more She says symptoms can last longer in Covid patients not admitted to hospital Up to a fifth of all coronavirus patients … Read more
Matt Hancock is furious. Tony Blair, the Health Secretary alleges, has been pinching his ideas for dealing with the pandemic and passing them off as his own. In December, Blair published a paper arguing there should be a 12-week delay between the first and second doses of the coronavirus jab so as to give as … Read more
Forget unpleasant swabs: New Covid-19 test analyses your SCREAMS for traces of the virus Dutch inventor Peter van Wees has developed a booth for Covid tests It is airlocked and people go in and shout or scream at their loudest Particles from exhaled air are then analysed based on size to detect Covid The test … Read more
MARCH 2020 Kate revealed she and Prince Charles had got ‘relatively close’ at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March 11 – Charles was diagnosed with coronavirus in mid-March. She said: ‘Around the 29/30 March, I came home came in and said [to Derek] ‘god you look ill.’ ‘He said he had a headache, numbness in his right hand, … Read more
Not now bird flu! Russia reports world’s first ever cases of H5N8 flu in humans – but says the virus hasn’t spread between people yet Russian officials diagnosed the human cases of the H5N8 bird flu virus The virus spread from birds to workers at a poultry plant in southern Russia Health officials said patients … Read more
The first person to administer a Covid-19 vaccination has warned that the virus ‘does not discriminate’, and that it’s a ‘lottery’ how each body will react. Matron at University Hospital Coventry, May Parsons, became the first person to administer a Covid jab to a patient outside of clinical trials after injeting Margaret Keenan, 91, with Pfizer’s vaccine … Read more
Elizabeth Day: I can’t stand these virus VIPs By Elizabeth Day for You Magazine Published: 00:02 GMT, 14 February 2021 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 14 February 2021 Styling: Holly Elgeti. Make-up: Nicky Weir using Hourglass Beauty. Hair: Alex Szabo at Carol Hayes using T3 Haircare. Dress, Mulberry. Jewellery, Daisy jewellery Perhaps it’s because there’s so … Read more
The Pfizer and Oxford Covid jabs offer two-thirds protection against the virus after just one injection, new data is set to reveal. The Pfizer vaccine starts to immunise in as little as two weeks and is just as effective in the elderly as it is in the young, official findings will reveal in the coming … Read more