Does vaccination protect from long COVID?

An interesting news item published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine on January 20th 2022 by Priya Venkatesan looks at this issue.  The United Kingdom Government’s Office of National Statistics published in their latest report on January 6th 2022 the...

Is the end of the pandemic close or will COVID-19 continue?

An interesting comment published in The Lancet January 19th 2022 by Christopher J L Murray explores this. The world is experiencing a huge wave of infection with the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.   Estimates based on Institute for Health Metrics and...

Long Covid and Brain Fog

Long Covid and Brain Fog Daily Express December 2021 Dr Stuart Sanders, GP at the London General Practice speaks to the Daily Express Online about being hospitalised with a Covid infection in March 2020 and outlines some of the cognitive impact experienced as a result...

Is Aspirin a Treatment for COVID-19?

Aspirin has been proposed as a treatment for COVID-19 on the basis of its antithrombotic  properties. A study published in The Lancet by the RECOVERY trial aimed to evaluate the  efficacy and safety of Aspirin in patients admitted to hospital with...

Where Are We with COVID?

James Gallagher, BBC News Health and Science Correspondent provides an interesting update on this current situation. He discusses that every source of data agrees that there is much coronavirus around, but that it has started to fall. The latest number of cases is...
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