British patients are cancelling appointments for their coronavirus vaccine because the EU’s mass revolt against AstraZeneca‘s jab over unproven blood clot fears has scared them off. Doctors involved in the UK’s rollout say Brits due their second dose have called with concerns about the vaccine, despite the EU’s own drug regulator, as well as the … Read more
Pfizer‘s Covid vaccine has been linked to more blood clots than AstraZeneca‘s in reports from the UK, statistics show as Europe reels from a ‘baffling’ decision to snub the jab. Thirteen countries on the continent have now turned their backs on the Oxford University Covid vaccine after regulators said they were investigating links to deadly … Read more
WHO is set to reject Wuhan lab link to Covid outbreak and instead point to source being an animal market – fuelling allegations of a ‘whitewash’ due to close links between the organisation and China Experts say the disease was most likely brought into the Huanan seafood market It was also suggested ‘frozen food theory’ … Read more
On December 21, 2019, a cluster of patients in China were diagnosed with ‘pneumonia of an unknown cause’. Three weeks later came the first death, of a man known to visit wet markets in Wuhan. A smattering of cases were diagnosed worldwide and on February 11, 2020, the World Health Organisation named the virus Covid-19. … Read more
Americans who are overweight or obese make up more than 73 percent of those who die of the virus, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data reveal. People who were obese made up nearly half of all fatalities among hospitalized coronavirus patients logged in the new report. Those figures align with the overall … Read more
The US may have suffered the highest coronavirus death toll in the world because almost 70 per cent of its adult population is overweight, according to a major report. Research by the World Obesity Federation found Covid deaths have been 10 times higher in countries where over half of adults are overweight, and they have accounted … Read more
The World Health Organization has scrapped plans for the team that visited Wuhan to publish its interim report into the origins of coronavirus. The Wall Street Journal reported late last night that the initial findings from the probe, which took place in China earlier this year, will not be released as previously stated. Instead a … Read more
Foreign holidays hopes boosted: WHO appears to be warming to ‘vaccine passports’ plan in bid to get world moving again Dr Michael Ryan said agency ‘looking at different options’ on vaccine passports But he stressed there were still ‘serious human rights and ethical’ concerns EU said its ‘vaccine passports’ scheme may be opened up to UK … Read more
Trish Greenhalgh, professor of primary care health science at the University of Oxford, was accused of ‘whipping up hysteria and anxieties’ after suggesting joggers should wear masks while exercising outdoors Runners should wear masks when they jog past other people, a leading expert suggested today. Professor Trish Greenhalgh, an expert in primary health care at … Read more
A professor has claimed that runners should be wearing masks to stop the spread of Covid-19, despite recommendations set out by the World Health Organisation. Trish Greenhalgh, a professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, appeared on Good Morning Britain today where she called for joggers to be ‘socially responsible’ and wear face … Read more