WHO recommends Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for over-65s

The World Health Organization has officially recommended the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine for people over the age of 65 and said it should be used ‘without an upper age limit’.  WHO experts have reviewed all the evidence from studies of the jab and said there is ‘no reason’ it shouldn’t be used against the South African variant … Read more

World Health Organization recommends Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine for over-65s

Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine IS safe and ‘likely effective’ for over-65s, World Health Organization rules as it officially recommends the jab ‘without an upper age limit’ The WHO, world’s leading health authority, gave the jab green light for over-65s Some European nations have refused to use the jab on older people Countries said there wasn’t enough … Read more

Best books on shops: Author Patricia Nicol recommends tomes about retail

Best books on shops: Author Patricia Nicol recommends tomes about retail Author Patricia Nicol recommends best selection of books on shops She said it comes at a time of high-street retailers struggling against economy  Recommendations included Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman Of Substance By Patricia Nicol For The Daily Mail Published: 22:13 GMT, 13 December 2020 … Read more

WHO recommends AGAINST using remdesivir to treat Covid

Doctors should not treat coronavirus patients with remdesivir ‘regardless of how ill they are’, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The antiviral showed early promise in pre-clinical Covid-19 trials and has been used around the world to treat people with severe disease, including in the UK. But officials at the WHO have now said there … Read more

WHO recommends against using remdesivir for Covid ‘because there’s no proof it works’

Doctors should not treat coronavirus patients with remdesivir ‘regardless of how ill they are’, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The antiviral showed early promise in pre-clinical Covid-19 trials and has been used around the world to treat people with severe disease, including in the UK. But officials at the WHO have now said there … Read more

Samantha Cameron recommends making face masks ‘pretty and colour coordinated’

Samantha Cameron recommends making face masks ‘pretty and colour coordinated’ as she creates one for a care worker charity By Claudia Joseph for the Daily Mail Published: 01:10 BST, 25 July 2020 | Updated: 01:10 BST, 25 July 2020 She has graced the top ten of Tatler’s Best Dressed list, is a clothes designer of … Read more

Ben Stiller recommends replacing an NYC statue of Theodore Roosevelt with one of Robin Williams

Ben Stiller suggests replacing an NYC statue of Theodore Roosevelt with one of his beloved late co-star Robin Williams: ‘He deserves one’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 19:32 BST, 22 June 2020 | Updated: 19:32 BST, 22 June 2020 Comic actor Ben Stiller has an idea for the perfect replacement to a statue of … Read more

For Mother’s Day, Olly Smith recommends looking for taste not price when buying your bubbles

It’s Mother’s Day and my motto is: let taste triumph over price tag! Try these options for fun and affordable fizz By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 BST, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 21 March 2020 Mother’s Day is here and what better way to show her you … Read more

Writing app Grammarly recommends users avoid sensitive terms like ‘Wuhan virus’ and ‘Chinese virus’

The digital writing aid Grammarly will now flag the phrases ‘Wuhan virus’ and ‘Chinese virus’ as potentially offensive and encourage people to instead use ‘COVID-19’ or ‘the coronavirus.’ The phrases were added to the tool’s list of sensitive words and phrases that should be avoided, as they can ‘encourage bias and misinformation.’ Grammarly points to a … Read more