Dr Jenny Harries is favourite to take over England’s National Institute of Health Protection

England’s deputy chief medical officer, Dr Jenny Harries, is the odds-on favourite to run No10’s National Institute of Health Protection — which will replace Public Health England. PHE is set to be disbanded when the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is over and replaced by the NIHP, which will be bigger and more powerful. Dr … Read more

One dose of Pfizer’s or Moderna’s vaccines could give COVID-19 survivors just much protection

One coronavirus vaccine dose may protect COVID-19 survivors as much as two doses given to people who have never had the infection, a new study suggests.   Researchers from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill compared antibody levels among two groups of patients given either the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or the Moderna vaccine. People previously ill with … Read more

El Chapo’s wife will be offered a new life with her daughters under witness protection

El Chapo’s wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was arrested at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, and charged with drug trafficking on Monday Prosecutors are prepared to offer El Chapo’s arrested wife a new life under witness protection for spilling secrets to devastate Mexico’s murderous Sinaloa cartel, Dailymail.com can exclusively reveal.”  Emma Coronel Aispuro would vanish with … Read more

Pfizer scientists are studying whether a THIRD vaccine shot can offer protection

Pfizer scientists are studying whether a THIRD vaccine shot can offer protection against more contagious and resistant COVID strains like the one from South Africa Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech are studying a third dose of their coronavirus vaccine The booster shot is aimed at protecting against variants, which are better at evading … Read more

Lisa Rinna keeps it casual in sweatpants as she triples up on COVID-19 protection during grocery run

Lisa Rinna keeps it casual in sweatpants as she triples up on COVID-19 protection and wears three masks during grocery run in Beverly Hills By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 03:56 GMT, 22 February 2021 | Updated: 03:56 GMT, 22 February 2021 Lisa Rinna has strutted her stuff on the red carpet many times over … Read more

As Prince Philip spends third night in hospital, royal protection officers’ car gets parking ticket 

Prince Philip spent a third night in hospital last night and is expected to stay for the weekend – as a ticket-happy official outside tried to lay claim to the title of Britain’s bravest traffic warden. As the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, remained in King Edward VII’s Hospital – where he is not allowed Royal visitors- protection … Read more

Pfizer says South African COVID-19 variant could reduce protection by TWO-THIRDS

A laboratory study suggests that the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce antibody protection from the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE vaccine by two-thirds, and it is not clear if the shot will be effective against the mutation, the companies said on Wednesday. The study found the vaccine was still able to neutralize the virus … Read more

Pfizer Covid jab offers two-thirds protection against virus after one dose, new data is set to show

The Pfizer and Oxford Covid jabs offer two-thirds protection against the virus after just one injection, new data is set to reveal. The Pfizer vaccine starts to immunise in as little as two weeks and is just as effective in the elderly as it is in the young, official findings will reveal in the coming … Read more

Scientists believe UK jabs WILL offer major protection against South African mutation of Covid-19 

By Eleanor Hayward Health Correspondent What is the South African variant? It was first found in Nelson Mandela Bay in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province in mid-October. Like the UK’s Kent variant, the mutant strain quickly became dominant and drove a ferocious second wave. There are two key mutations that give it an advantage – these are … Read more

Labour demands protection for millions of homeowners from cost of replacing faulty cladding

Labour demands protection for millions of homeowners from ‘intolerable’ cost of replacing cladding found to be faulty after deadly Grenfell Tower fire amid fears a sixth of ALL homes could be affected Sir Keir Starmer said the current situation was ‘intolerable’ for homeowners  Cladding criticised after 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster that left 72 people dead  … Read more