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Coughing Covid patients put frontline NHS staff at far higher risk of catching the virus than thought and PPE plans may need a complete rethink, study finds Researchers found that coughing produces 10 times more infectious ‘aerosol’ There are now calls for healthcare workers to be given FFP3 respirator masks Dr James Dodd’s research suggests … Read more
The number of hospital patients with coronavirus may fall to levels seen at the start of November by March 8 — the day Boris Johnson hopes schools will be able to re-open. Patients in hospital with coronavirus across England have been falling at an average of 479 per day over the last 13 days, according to … Read more
Half of people who survived COVID-19 hospitalization still suffered symptoms four months later, a new study finds. Over 50 percent of survivors’ lungs still weren’t functioning at full capacity months after discharge, and 17 percent had symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to Italian research published Wednesday. Sometimes called ‘long-haulers’ or sufferers of ‘long … Read more
An intensive care consultant described the ‘palpable fear’ in patients who face being put on ventilators after watching others dying around them in ICU wards. Dr Richard Cree works at Middlesbrough’s James Cook University Hospital alongside his consultant wife Nicky. He has been blogging about his experiences on the Covid front line throughout the pandemic, … Read more
The EU rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has not been linked to any deaths and has had no unexpected side-effects in its first month, the European Medicines Agency said today. The good review of the Pfizer jab comes as the EU battles with rival vaccine provider AstraZeneca about delayed supplies to the bloc – while … Read more
Four Covid-19 patients are killed in Romanian hospital blaze – two months after ten died in another hospital fire in the country The fire broke out at 5am in a Bucharest hospital treating Covid-19 patients The patients were transferred to other coronavirus hospitals while on oxygen Investigators do not know the cause of the blaze … Read more
A team of medics from the World Health Organization has embarked upon its first full day investigating the origins of Covid in China. The 13-strong team of international experts travelled to a hospital in Hubei province on Friday which was the first to treat Covid patients and interviewed Chinese researchers working on the virus. While … Read more
After almost a year on the front line caring for severely ill Covid patients, Dr Rachel Clarke’s post-work ritual has now become ingrained. Every night, when she gets home from a 12-hour hospital shift, she sanitises hands, door handles, keys and mobile phone, runs straight upstairs and undresses. She puts her clothes in a bag … Read more
Asylum seekers at a coronavirus-hit army barracks were evacuated to hotels for quarantine at ’15 minutes notice’, it has been claimed. Some have also said they were forced to share rooms with those who had tested positive for the virus before they were evacuated. Napier Barracks in Kent has been used to house about 400 … Read more
Doctor is arrested on suspicion of MURDERING two patients ‘to free up beds in overwhelmed Italian Covid ward’ Carlo Mosca, 47, allegedly administered lethal doses of anaesthetics in March Natale Bassi, 61, and Angelo Paletti, 80, were covid patients at Lombardy A&E WhatsApps between nurses accused him of killing patients to free up beds Mosca, … Read more