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The antiviral remdesivier cuts recovery time by about two days, but does not reduce the risk of dying from of the infection, a new study suggests. Remdesivir is the only therapeutic drug approved for emergency use to treat COVID-19 in the U.S., but clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the World … Read more
Taking the contraceptive pill and smoking may have been behind blood clots found in people who had the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, experts believe. European medical regulators are investigating what triggered the handful of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CSVT) cases. But the bloc’s health chiefs have yet to make any conclusions. More than a dozen EU nations … Read more
British patients are cancelling appointments for their coronavirus vaccine because the EU’s mass revolt against AstraZeneca’s jab over unproven blood clot fears has scared them off. Doctors involved in the UK’s rollout say Brits due their second dose have called with concerns about the vaccine, despite the EU’s own drug regulator, as well as the … Read more
British patients are cancelling appointments for their coronavirus vaccine because the EU’s mass revolt against AstraZeneca’s jab over unproven blood clot fears has scared them off. Doctors involved in the UK’s rollout say Brits due their second dose have called with concerns about the vaccine, despite the EU’s own drug regulator, as well as the … Read more
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine has been linked to more blood clots than AstraZeneca’s in reports from the UK, statistics show amid Europe’s ‘baffling’ mass revolt against the jab. Thirteen countries across the continent have now turned their backs on the Oxford University jab in a knee-jerk reaction over unproven blood clot fears. The European Medicines Agency … Read more
Pfizer’s Covid vaccine has been linked to more blood clots than AstraZeneca’s in reports from the UK, statistics show as Europe reels from a ‘baffling’ decision to snub the jab. Thirteen countries on the continent have now turned their backs on the Oxford University Covid vaccine after regulators said they were investigating links to deadly … Read more
WHO is set to reject Wuhan lab link to Covid outbreak and instead point to source being an animal market – fuelling allegations of a ‘whitewash’ due to close links between the organisation and China Experts say the disease was most likely brought into the Huanan seafood market It was also suggested ‘frozen food theory’ … Read more
On December 21, 2019, a cluster of patients in China were diagnosed with ‘pneumonia of an unknown cause’. Three weeks later came the first death, of a man known to visit wet markets in Wuhan. A smattering of cases were diagnosed worldwide and on February 11, 2020, the World Health Organisation named the virus Covid-19. … Read more
On December 21, 2019, a cluster of patients in China were diagnosed with ‘pneumonia of an unknown cause’. Three weeks later came the first death, of a man known to visit wet markets in Wuhan. A smattering of cases were diagnosed worldwide and on February 11, 2020, the World Health Organisation named the virus Covid-19. … Read more
Americans who are overweight or obese make up more than 73 percent of those who die of the virus, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data reveal. People who were obese made up nearly half of all fatalities among hospitalized coronavirus patients logged in the new report. Those figures align with the overall … Read more