Ramadan 12th April to 12th May 2021 All able-bodied Muslims are expected to fast during the month of Ramadan from dawn until dusk. This is complete abstinence from food, drink and sexual relations. There are a number of exemptions to this, and in such cases the...
An accepted manuscript published in the Journal of Travel Medicine by Wang and others on 19th February 2021 looked at this question. Clearly an issue of concern to anyone travelling is the possibility of in-flight transmission of COVID-19 during long and short haul...
A review article in PubMed.gov published 18th February 2021 by Arolas and others looked at this issue They analysed the premature mortality impact of COVID-19 by calculating the amount of life years lost across 81 countries covering over 1.279866 million...
An interesting article published by Jabbal and others in Eurosurveillance, Europe’s journal on infectious disease surveillance, epidemiology, prevention and control looked at whether a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine was effective. They found that...
An article in the Scientific American asked some questions and gave some answers. If you are eligible, should you have COVID vaccine? Yes, if you are currently eligible to get a vaccine, you should have it. In order to build herd immunity and slow the spread of...
This was looked at in a randomised study published 12th February 2021 in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s Network Open. The randomised clinical trial by Thomas and others examined whether high dose zinc and/or high dose vitamin C reduced the...
