An interesting article published by Dalbeth and Robinson in The Lancet rheumatology March 9th 2021 discusses this issue. There has been a rapid acceleration in the understanding of predictors for poor outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection since first reports of...
An article published by Hopkinson and others in the British Medical Journal Thorax looked at this important issue. They tried to associate current tobacco smoking with the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 and the severity of illness. They looked at the...
An interesting retrospective cohort study by Wilcox and others published in the BMJ Open Respiratory Research Journals suggested that influenza vaccination may offer some protection against COVID-19 severity. The study used routinely collected health records...
The CDC in America has published guidelines for what you can and cannot do when you have been fully vaccinated. Here in the United Kingdom we must abide by the guidelines as set out by the Government and Public Health England. It is, however, interesting to...
The CDC in their weekly morbidity and mortality report March 12th 2021 looked at this issue. They found that individuals with a BMI near the threshold between healthy weight and overweight generally had the lowest risk for hospitalisations, ICU admission and...
An interesting article published by Pawlowski and others in Scientific Reports published 26th February 2021 investigated this issue. Conventionally, vaccinations are intended to train the adaptive immune system by generating an antigen specific immune...
