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Britain’s Covid vaccine chaos: Doctors are forced to BIN doses ‘because people aren’t turning up for appointments’ and pensioners are having to queue for hours in the cold due to IT systems crashing By Sam Blanchard Deputy Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 11:08 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 11:20 GMT, 11 January 2021 Britain’s … Read more
Britain today started to dish out Oxford’s game-changing Covid vaccine in what has been called a ‘pivotal moment’ in the fight against the pandemic, with an 82-year-old dialysis patient becoming the first person to receive the jab. Brian Pinker, a retired maintenance manager who describes himself as Oxford born and bred, said he was ‘so … Read more
Patient with a life-threatening condition sues over bike lanes near a hospital that could be ‘matter of life and death’ if narrower road causes congestion Amit Shah has said that the move could be a ‘matter of life and death’ for him Removal of parking spaces means he can’t rely on a friend to rush … Read more
Researchers say they have documented the first instance of a coronavirus patient being struck down with sudden paralysis he experienced before. In a case report, published in the journal Pathogens, the 54-year-old man visited the emergency room after complaining of difficulty swallowing and weakness in his arms and legs. After diagnosing him with COVID-19, doctors … Read more
99-year-old Covid-19 patient gives the thumbs up after beating the disease in Croatia – and tells doctors: ‘I feel fine!’ Margareta Kranjcec was released from hospital after three weeks of treatment She contracted Covid-19 in October, along with several residents of the old people’s home where she lives in the central city of Karlovac A … Read more
A baby girl was the second patient to receive a fatal overdose of the same drug at a Surrey hospital within six months, an inquest has heard. Eleven-month-old Sophie Burgess was rushed by ambulance to St Peter’s Hospital in Chertsey after suffering a seizure on June 16 2016, but died after being given the drug … Read more
Victoria is Covid-FREE: State has zero active cases for the first time in more than 260 days as last patient is released from hospital Victoria has no active coronavirus cases for the first time since February State’s last active case, a man in his 90s, was discharged from hospital Monday The state has gone 25 … Read more
Britain’s longest-suffering Covid patient has finally returned home after seven months. Taxi driver Ali Sakallioglu spent a total of 222 days in hospital and care beds after contracting the deadly virus, which so far killed more than 50,000 people in the UK. During the 56-year-old’s time in hospital, he had a heart attack, suffered a … Read more
Video has emerged of a corpse sprawled across a hospital lavatory in a makeshift ward overflowing with coronavirus patients amid spiralling cases and deaths in Italy. The unidentified man was a suspected coronavirus sufferer who had been waiting for a test in the packed, squalid A&E waiting room of Cardarelli Hospital in Naples. The man … Read more
A 53-year-old bowel cancer patient who was due to have his tumours removed on the first day of lockdown has revealed he found out the disease spread to his liver after the operation was cancelled due to Covid-19. Tonight’s emotional episode of BBC2’s Hospital features Szabolc, 53, a university lecturer who lives in the UK, … Read more