Mystery over high risk to black and Asian Britons as BAME people disproportionately affected by Covid-19 Figures show 28 per cent of those needing Covid-19 treatment are black or Asian Concerns have been raised over the number of bus drivers contracting the virus In the US, similar trends have been established over ethnic differences Experts … Read more
Lying on her hospital bed, awaiting a 14-hour, life-threatening operation, mother-of-four Sarah Berry began a mental checklist. She’d made after-school arrangements for her three youngest children, given her husband recipes for their favourite pasta sauce and, of course, written her will. All essential undertakings, given there was a 50 per cent chance she would not survive … Read more
It’s the three-minute breathing exercise that can ease debilitating coronavirus symptoms – and, by now, thousands of Britons will have tried it. A video posted by urgent care specialist Dr Sarfaraz Munshi showing him demonstrating the technique has gone viral – raking in more than three million views on YouTube, no doubt bolstered by the … Read more
The doctor looked at me solemnly, having listened to my chest and peered at the back of my throat. ‘You really shouldn’t have come here today,’ he said. ‘Sorry, what?’ I replied. ‘With everything that’s going on, it wasn’t sensible to come here. Haven’t you thought that you might have this new virus?’ The doctor … Read more
US regulators have given emergency use permission for a device to filter coronavirus patients’ blood in an effort to combat the devastating effects of severe inflammation. Doctors believe that many of those who die of coronavirus die as a result of the so-called ‘cytokine storm’ – a deluge of inflammation meant to help fight the … Read more