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The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine did not speed up coronavirus patients’ recovery in a trial in China, scientists have revealed. In a disappointing blow for the promising drug, which is being trialled against COVID-19 in the UK and around the world, doctors said it did not work as a cure. Patients who were taking it suffered … Read more
The first results from an international experimental US antiviral drug are promising, even as a trial of the same drug in China shuts down. More than half of a group of severely ill coronavirus patients from the US, Canada, Europe and Japan improved after taking remdesivir made by California-based Gilead Sciences. Originally developed as a … Read more
People with diabetes have a higher risk of dying if they catch coronavirus – this is due to an overproduction of immune cells in the lungs, a new study finds. Experts from Wuhan University found people with high blood glucose levels have a much greater chance of catching more severe strains of the deadly virus. … Read more
The World Heath Organisation has found itself with serious questions to answer after President Trump accused the UN agency of ‘severely mismanaging’ its response to the coronavirus pandemic and withheld $500million in funding. The WHO has been spearheading global efforts to fight the virus, but has come under attack for playing along with China as … Read more
Slow response to coronavirus has cost lives, says government’s former science adviser David King as he blames austerity measures for lack of pandemic preparations Sir David King says the UK government’s slow response to coronavirus cost lives Ex-chief science adviser says it was obvious disease would spread from China Sir David said coalition’s austerity measures … Read more
The head of the World Health Organization said today he ‘regrets’ Donald Trump’s decision to suspend US funding for the agency and called for ‘solidarity’ in tackling the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO’s embattled chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference that ‘this is a time for all of us to be united in our common … Read more
The World Heath Organisation has found itself with serious questions to answer after President Trump accused the UN agency of ‘severely mismanaging’ its response to the coronavirus pandemic and withheld $500million in funding. The WHO has been spearheading global efforts to fight the virus, but has come under attack for playing along with China as … Read more
China concealed coronavirus from the West and is ‘evading’ blame for the pandemic, a former head of MI6 said today. Sir John Sawers said Beijing was not honest when the disease first surfaced and faced ‘anger’ from the international community. He also insisted the World Health Organisation (WHO) faced ‘serious questions’ for failing to scrutinise … Read more
Acclaimed as our greatest living artist, David Hockney is keen to share his opinions on the worldwide health crisis. The 82-year-old painter is convinced that smoking helps protect against coronavirus. And he’s written a letter to the Daily Mail to argue his case. Hockney suggests ‘smokers have developed an immune system to this virus’. He … Read more
France summons Chinese ambassador after Paris embassy diplomat accuses French care workers of ‘leaving residents to die of hunger and disease’ in new attack on West’s coronavirus response Ambassador Lu Shaye slammed the West in an essay on the embassy’s website French Foreign Minister has summoned the Chinese envoy for the comments Lu Shaye suggested … Read more