A preprint published in MedRxiv by Ward and others on 26th February 2021 reviews this. The vaccination programme which began in England in December 2020 gave priority to administering the first dose to the largest number of older individuals, health care and care home...
An interesting article published by Owusu in the Journal of Infectious Diseases 27th February 2021 looked at this issue. They collected serial nasopharyngeal specimens at various time points from 109 individuals with PCR confirmed COVID-19. They...
An interesting article published in the Scientific American by William Haseltine looks at this issue. With declining rates of new infections and the rollout of vaccines, some are beginning to speak of an end to COVID-19. But that rhetoric in...
An accepted manuscript published in the Journal of Travel Medicine by Wang and others on 19th February 2021 looked at this question. Clearly an issue of concern to anyone travelling is the possibility of in-flight transmission of COVID-19 during long and short haul...
A review article in PubMed.gov published 18th February 2021 by Arolas and others looked at this issue They analysed the premature mortality impact of COVID-19 by calculating the amount of life years lost across 81 countries covering over 1.279866 million...
An interesting article published by Jabbal and others in Eurosurveillance, Europe’s journal on infectious disease surveillance, epidemiology, prevention and control looked at whether a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine was effective. They found that...
