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Volkswagen has unleashed the most powerful road-going version of the Golf yet – and for the first time ever it comes with a ‘Drift’ mode. The aggressively styled all-wheel-drive model – the most potent ever to wear the iconic Golf badge – produces 320 horsepower from a highly-strung 2.0-litre, four-cylinder, petrol engine and can accelerate … Read more
The experimental coronavirus drug being given to Donald Trump is to be rolled out to 30 or 40 UK hospitals this week as it is deemed ‘very potent’ by UK scientists. Oxford University professor Peter Horby said UK patients began receiving REGN-COV2, made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, last weekend as part of Oxford University’s national Recovery trial. … Read more
On the thankfully rare occasions I have to take a painkiller, I give myself a little pep talk before I swallow them. I tell myself that I will soon start to feel the impact, and then I imagine the chemicals surging through my system, doing good. That’s not as weird as it may sound, and … Read more
The virus which causes Covid-19, called SARS-CoV-2, is mutating at an unusually slow rate, a new study finds. Analysis by experts at the Royal Society also found none of the alterations made so far to the coronavirus’s genetic code are making it more infectious or severe. The findings are reassuring for clinicians and epidemiologists as … Read more
Doctors in Italy claim the coronavirus has weakened and become a shadow of the disease that rapidly spread around the world. Italian medics say the infection – which has killed 370,000 worldwide – is much less lethal than it was and ‘no longer clinically exists’. Patients are showing much smaller amounts of the virus in … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Andrew Bailey’s potent cocktail is bigger and bolder than anything done by the Fed or the ECB By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 22:12 GMT, 19 March 2020 One of the remarkable aspects of the near three years of uncertainty over the UK’s departure … Read more