They are effective against the B.1.1.7 mutation which remains the dominant strain across the United Kingdom and first detected in Kent This weekend Public Health England published a study which showed that cases of the B.1.617.2 strain had risen sharply in the...
An editorial published in the British Medical Journal May 17th by Dr David Smith and Dr Gill tries to answer this question. They feel that the target is over ambitious and may risk errors. The UK Government has launched a COVID-19 antiviral...
An interesting study published by Collier and others in the Journal of the American Medical Association published online May 13th 2021 sought to answer this question. Pregnant women are at an increased risk of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 but have...
A study by Lee and others published in the BMJ Health & Care Informatics 2021 looked into this issue and concluded an increased risk of fatality for patients with COVID-19 plus haematological malignancies and demonstrated similar findings of COVID-19 on melanoma,...
What Is the Real Risk of a Central Venous Thrombosis and Portal VeinThrombosis in Those Vaccinated With COVID-19 Vaccine? A preprint published in medRxiv aimed to estimate the absolute risk of central venous thrombosis and portal venous thrombosis in the two weeks...
The RECOVERY trial An interesting article published in The Lancet by the recovery collaborative group dated May 14Th 2021, sought to answer this question. Many patients with COVID-19 have been treated with plasma containing anti-SARS-CoV-2...
