New York COVID variant could infect vaccinated residents and those who have already had the virus, former FDA head Dr. Scott Gottlieb warns By Jenny Stanton For Dailymail.com Published: 20:35 GMT, 21 March 2021 | Updated: 20:58 GMT, 21 March 2021 Dr. Scott Gottlieb has warned that the New York variant of COVID-19 could reinfect … Read more
Edward Jenner pictured in a portrait Esteemed scientist Edward Jenner used the eight-year-old son of his gardener for the first ever challenge trial, with just a hunch as to whether it would be successful. Luckily, it worked. And the study led to the invention of the smallpox vaccine, which saw the debilitating disease eradicated in … Read more
Edward Jenner pictured in a portrait Esteemed scientist Edward Jenner used the eight-year-old son of his gardener for the first ever challenge trial, with just a hunch as to whether it would be successful. Luckily, it worked. And the study led to the invention of the smallpox vaccine, which saw the debilitating disease eradicated in … Read more
It is the biggest story in the world right now. What happens in the US matters more than anything else for our economy and our savings – and the possibility that Donald Trump might be incapacitated a month before the presidential election piles uncertainty onto uncertainty for all of us. So what does it mean … Read more
Did Jeremy Corbyn’s Marxist henchman Seumas Milne infect Boris Johnson AND Dominic Cummings with coronavirus during Downing Street visit? On March 16, Mr Corbyn visited Mr Johnson at No.10 with his aide Mr Milne Joining them in the Prime Minister’s study was Mr Cummings The quartet were discussing the Government’s response to coronavirus A few … Read more
A crumpled blue shirt and cords, beaten-up brown lace-ups and five-day stubble – it’s the classic, bookish Oxford student uniform that makes Seán McPartlin seem an unlikely hero in the war against Covid-19. But that’s exactly what he might become. Astonishingly, the 22-year-old philosophy postgraduate student is one of a handful of men and women … Read more
The two British scientists at the forefront of the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine have clashed over a controversial plan to deliberately infect people with the virus. Professor Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, is in the advanced stages of setting up a human trial for one of the most promising … Read more
Coronavirus is able to travel more than 26 feet (eight metres) in cold environments with moving air, according to a study that recreated an outbreak in a food factory. Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research focused on an outbreak of Covid-19 at a slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrueck, Germany, that infected 1,500 workers. They found … Read more
Coronavirus can spread in airborne particles, drifting around rooms to infect people, new research suggests. Whether coronavirus can spread through airborne transmission has been a subject of nervous debate as cases continue to surge in the US and health officials scramble to issue guidance that will keep people safe without entirely shutting down life and … Read more
Wearing a mask that covers both your mouth and nose is crucial to protecting yourself (and others) from coronavirus, because the nostrils are particularly vulnerable to infection, new research shows. Although its coronavirus’s devastating effects on the lungs that land patients in the ICU, University of North Carolina (UNC) scientists found that the virus typically … Read more