The editorial published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases dated February 11th 2021 looks at this issue and asks when the global pandemic end will? The question on everyone’s mind is; when will this end? Much of the narrative around the pandemic...
As Matt Hancock said in a webinar to me, if you have four grandparents and only four vaccines, do you vaccinate all four or do you just vaccinate two? This is a question which we have all been asking and the government appear to have answered. However, the...
An interesting report by Talha Burki published in The Lancet February 6, 2021 discusses this topic. A new consortium is trying to find out whether the variants of SARS-CoV-2 which are emerging will have different clinical effects. All viruses mutate but the...
An interesting report published in The Lancet 6 February 2020 by John Zarocostas reports on the investigation. With new infections of COVID-19 still spreading rapidly, and health systems stretched to their limits, public Interest is now focused on the WHO...
Acute COVID definition: Signs and symptoms of COVID-19 for up to 4 weeks. Ongoing symptomatic COVID-19 definition: Signs and symptoms of COVID-19 from four weeks to twelve weeks. Post COVID syndrome definition: Signs and symptoms that develop during or after an...
An interesting preprint in medRxiv by Tardif and others published on 26th January 2021 reports new medical research which has yet to be evaluated. Evidence suggests the role of an inflammatory storm in COVID-19 patients. Colchicine is an orally administered,...