The government has set out their roadmap for ending lockdown in a 60 plus page document. The document, however, warns that vaccines on their own may not be enough to prevent a significant proportion of people being infected whilst the restrictions are...
Aucott and Redman discuss this in their letter in The Lancet published March 5th 2021. 115 million people worldwide have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic, with extensive implications for morbidity and mortality. Description...
Matt Hancock announced at the press conference on Friday 5th March that there was no evidence of onward transmission of the Brazil Coronavirus variant of concern. He informed that the mystery person infected with it had been found. Apparently, officials had been...
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...
