Why does the SARS-CoV-2 virus seem to affect Black and South Asian Ethnic Groups more in the UK? An interesting correspondence by Marion Cook in The Lancet July 17 suggests that this could be related to sickle cell and thalassaemia. Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited...
COVID 19 in Children and How it Occurs or Does Not Occur in Families An interesting article published in Paediatrics by Klara, M. and others looked at the dynamics of family infection. It is known that children have been less affected than adults in terms of severity...
Diabetes and COVID-19 Disease; Why do Diabetics have Worse Outcomes? This is carefully looked at in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology by Matteo Apicella and others and they suggest that the reason for worse prognosis in people with diabetes is likely to be...
SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine An interesting update from Professor Justin Stebbing provids his own insight into the current vaccine progress. Professor Stebbing feels that there is a 75% probability that there will be enough vaccine for the entire United States population...
Coronavirus Disease Exposure and Spread from Nightclubs An interesting article in the emerging infectious diseases Journal of the CDC showed that 246 cases of COVID-19 were linked to nightclubs in Seoul, South Korea. During the April 30 to May 5 bank holiday,...
Diarrhoea as a Feature of COVID-19 Disease A study in China published as a letter in the BMJ suggests that the most common symptoms in patients infected by SARS-CoV-2 are fever and cough. They suggested that the incidence of other clinical features was often...
