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At least 41 per cent of under 30s suffering from coronavirus in England caught the disease in a pub, bar or restaurant, leaked Government slides have claimed. And a quarter of Covid-19 infections across all age groups have been linked to the hospitality venues. The shocking figures are in stark contrast to official data from … Read more
The US could have up to 300,000 doses of Regeneron’s antibody treatment for coronavirus this fall, White House officials and the company said Thursday. ‘We’ve applied the same methods to supporting therapeutics [as the government has to vaccine development] too,’ Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Alex Azar said during a Thursday Goldman … Read more
Twenty-four people have died after a coronavirus outbreak at a hospital in Wales sparked by a ‘super-spreader’. There are now 129 Covid-19 cases at Royal Glamorgan Hospital in locked-down Rhondda Cynon Taf, up from 94 last week. Coronavirus infections in the region have spiked in the last month, from 48.9 cases per 100,000 people on … Read more
President Donald Trump announced he is cured from COVID in his first interview since being diagnosed with the disease but indicated he’s still taking a powerful steroid that can cause mania and rage. ‘I’m ready to go except for the quarantine situation,’ he told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on Thursday morning in a telephone interview. ‘I don’t … Read more
The National Trust today announced it will axe nearly 1,300 jobs as it battles the impact of Covid. The organisation, which warned in July that it might have to make 1,200 people redundant to deal with the fallout from the pandemic, has said it is making 514 compulsory redundancies following a consultation. A further 782 … Read more
Universities are coming under increasing pressure today as staff threaten walkouts and students face fines for breaching Covid guidelines.
The NHS will be unable to cope if coronavirus infection rates across the country continue to rise, medical leaders have warned. Dr Helen Stokes-Lampard, the chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges which represents the UK and Ireland’s 24 medical royal colleges, said that people need to strictly follow restrictions or the NHS could be … Read more
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris accused Vice President Mike Pence of a COVID ‘cover-up’ in the opening minutes of Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City, Utah. ‘Here’s the thing, on January 28th, the vice president and the president were informed about the nature of this pandemic,’ Harris said. ‘They knew and … Read more
Thousands of patients suffering with ‘long-covid’ will be offered specialist help at rehabilitation clinics across England, the head of the NHS has announced. Sir Simon Stevens said £10m would be invested this year in setting up the one-stop shop services for physical and mental health issues caused by coronavirus. He estimated ‘hundreds of thousands’ of … Read more
BREAKING: Trump says getting COVID-19 was a ‘gift from God’ because he got Regeneron’s coronavirus antibody cocktail which he falsely calls ‘a cure,’ as he claims it will soon get emergency FDA approval and be FREE for all Americans President Trump said that he thinks the antibody cocktail he received to treat coronavirus is a ‘cure’ … Read more