‘I feel hot and sweaty’: Piers Morgan denies he’s ill (despite losing his voice) and blames clammy appearance on ‘feeling pressure to do his own make-up’ By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline Published: 08:46 BST, 21 April 2020 | Updated: 09:17 BST, 21 April 2020 Piers Morgan was forced to deny he is ill on Good … Read more
Wuhan doctors who were critically ill with coronavirus wake up to find that their skin has turned dark after virus damaged their liver Dr Yi and Dr Hu were left fighting for their lives after catching the virus at work Doctors saved them by hooking them to a life-support machine called ECMO Change of their … Read more
Up to 4,000 patients with serious complications from the novel coronavirus in New York are being given the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine. President Donald Trump has hailed the drug, which also is used to treat arthritis and lupus, as a ‘game-changer’ for treating COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Health officials told the New York … Read more
Heartbroken family of a desperately ill pensioner say their last goodbyes after Dutch fire crews lift them up to the fourth-floor window of his locked-down care home Family is helped by local fire department to say their last goodbyes to ill relative Relatives of Henry Nijhove, 87, of Holland, used extendable ladder to reach him … Read more
SOCIETY A BIT OF A STRETCH: THE DIARIES OF A PRISONER by Chris Atkins (Atlantic Books £16.99, 336pp) Documentary maker Chris Atkins is in a rundown cell with a psychotic prisoner discussing the intricacies of quantum mechanics. He has more prison access than any journalist could dream of, but there’s just one catch: he is … Read more
Older people and those with underlying conditions are at greatest risk of dying of coronavirus – but otherwise healthy young people are getting severely ill and even dying of the disease. And the ill fates of these young coronavirus patients may be written into their DNA, some scientists suspect. Some 80 percent of people who … Read more
Coronavirus ‘harms the brain and nervous system of HALF of severely ill patients and a third of all cases’ — causing symptoms such as stumbling, slurred speech and seizures Neurologists studied 214 patients treated for coronavirus in Wuhan, China Of these people, 36.4 per cent were found to have brain and nerve symptoms Identifying these symptoms … Read more
Coronavirus may mount a full body onslaught, attacking not just the lungs and respiratory tract but the heart as well, emerging research suggests. Doctors have observe since the early days of the pandemic that COVID-19 patients with underlying health conditions – including cardiac disease – tend to get coronavirus at higher rates and become sicker … Read more