Banks will make £600m in extra interest from Covid mortgage holidays 

Banks are set to make more than £600 million in extra interest paid by cash-strapped homeowners taking mortgage holidays, Money Mail can reveal. Campaigners say the vast profit lenders will make from the crisis is ‘disgraceful’ and are demanding they scrap additional interest charges. The breaks are seen as a lifeline for borrowers facing financial … Read more

NYC hospital removes blood, enriches it with oxygen and returns it to Covid patients

Doctors at a Brooklyn hospitals are removing coronavirus patients’ blood from their bodies, rejunvenating it with oxygen, and returning it to the patients in an experimental bid to help those on ventilators.  The procedure is known as ‘ECMO’ –  extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.  As critically ill coronavirus patients flood into their hospitals, doctors have noticed a … Read more