FDA says Pfizer COVID vaccine can be shipped, stored at freezer temps

No more ultra-cold! FDA says Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine can be shipped and stored at REGULAR freezer temperatures instead of -76ºF in a move to ease rollout FDA approved PFizer’s request to store its COVID-19 vaccine at -13°F to 5°F for up to two weeks Previously, the shot had to be kept at ultra cold temperatures … Read more

Ethnic minorities are NOT more likely to die from Covid than white Brits

Ethnic minority Britons may only face a higher risk of dying of Covid because they’re more likely to catch it, not because of genetic differences, according to an official report.  A review by Number 10’s Race Disparity Unit compared death rates between white people and ethnic minorities and found the gap had narrowed in the … Read more

600,000 extra shielders offered first Covid jab after being added to extremely vulnerable list

Hundreds of thousands of people asked to shield in England are being invited for a Covid-19 vaccine jab. About 1.7million more people were added to the shielding list last week after experts identified additional adults at serious risk of the virus. Some 600,000 of that group are now being invited to book a slot at … Read more

Nursing home COVID deaths have plunged 75% since December as new cases fell by 90%

One of the earliest coronavirus pandemic hotspots is seeing a rapid decline in cases and deaths that far [outpaces[ the U.S.: nursing homes. Between late December and mid February, weekly infections among residents fell by nearly 90 percent – xx the rate as seen in the general population, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of federal … Read more

Sunak set to overhaul Covid loan programme in next week’s budget

Sunak set to overhaul Covid loan programme: Bounce back scheme to close at end of March By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:52 GMT, 25 February 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 25 February 2021 The Chancellor is set to shake up the Government’s emergency Covid loan programme in next week’s Budget. Rishi Sunak … Read more

Pythons from Florida Everglades could help produce COVID shots, researcher says

A researcher and python hunter by the name of ‘The Wildman’ have joined forces to explore what they believe could be used to fight the coronavirus – and it is hiding in the Florida Everglades. Python hunter Dustin Crum and Daryl Thompson, a researcher, and entrepreneur with Global Research and Discovery Group out of Winter … Read more

Katie Price’s beau Carl Woods reveals they’ve been visited by police AGAIN over Covid ‘rule break’

Katie Price‘s boyfriend Carl Woods launched into a furious rant on Thursday as he revealed they had been visited by police again, accused of breaking Covid rules.  The car salesman, 32, took to Instagram to say how they had been reported for driving 45 minutes to collect a takeaway from Sheesh restaurant in Essex on … Read more

Covid UK: Small business launches soar by over 40% during pandemic

Small business launches soar by more than 40 per cent to 830,000 as people turn to selling goods from home in bid to make a living Biggest new businesses registered with Companies House were from people selling goods from home, study by Reboot SEO Agency found 39,700 new firms selling via mail order or the … Read more

‘I gained a lot of weight over COVID’: Gwyneth Paltrow’s body doesn’t ‘snap back’ like it used to

Gwyneth Paltrow is sharing more details about her struggle with long COVID, revealing that she ‘gained a lot of weight’ during the pandemic and her metabolism has slowed down. In the latest episode of the Dear Media podcast The Art of Being Well, the 48-year-old spoke with her functional medicine practitioner Dr. Will Cole, and said … Read more

Covid Scotland: Nicola Sturgeon snipes at Boris Johnson strategy

Nicola Sturgeon has taken a swipe at Boris Johnson over his response to the coronavirus crisis as she appeared to back claims that Scotland had done better than England.  Ms Sturgeon tweeted a story published by the Financial Times with the headline ‘Scotland reaps dividend of Covid response that diverged from England’.  The Scottish First … Read more