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A new online tool reveals how long it will be until different Americans are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorizing both Pfizer/BioNTech’s and Moderna’s vaccines, healthcare workers and long-term care residents have begun being immunized. However, the majority of the population will not be able to receive … Read more
Widows who fear they are underpaid state pension now or were in the past can check their payments on a new web page launched by our agony uncle Steve Webb. The site is designed to give widows an easy way to find out whether they could be missing out on many thousands of pounds, and … Read more
Landlords have seen the number of buy-to-let mortgages slide by almost a third over the past year and rates on offer rise, data shows. The buy-to-let mortgage crunch has seen 800 of the 2,592 deals for landlords on offer in November 2019 vanish, a drop of 31 per cent, according to data from Moneyfacts. Meanwhile, … Read more
CDC’s smartphone tool that will track the first Americans to receive coronavirus jabs may be vulnerable to hackers and anti-vaxxers filing false reports about the safety of the shots, health officials claim V-SAFE is a smartphone tool developed by the CDC to track patients who received the first coronavirus vaccines Patients will scan a QR … Read more
A complex mathematical equation to work out the risk of catching the coronavirus if one person in a room is infected Covid-19 has been turned into a handy online tool. Created by researchers at MIT, it assumes a room hosts one infected person and allows the user to customise the settings of the room and … Read more
Anger flared last night after the Department of Health and Social Care’s Twitter account was used in an effort to rubbish a report challenging official scaremongering by analysing key facts about the coronavirus pandemic. Under the headline ‘Covid: What They Don’t Tell You’, a two-page article in yesterday’s Daily Mail raised multiple questions about the … Read more
A flash of luck, 6 inches of metal pipe and a few cake tins helped astronomers trace the source of a mysterious fast radio burst to a strange star in the Milky Way. California Institute of Technology and MCGill University astronomers identified a magnetar star 32,000 light years from the Earth as the source of … Read more
Did a rock star spark coronavirus chaos in New Zealand? Tool frontman admits he played a gig just days before testing positive – before a major outbreak exploded Maynard James Keenan played a show in Auckland days before covid diagnosis The Tool frontman said he began feeling sick in Australia during the band’s tour He … Read more
Doctors are now able to predict how likely their patient is to die or be hospitalised from Covid-19 using a new tool. Researchers said the model by Oxford University experts could help devise a more targeted shielding programme during the second wave of the pandemic. The tool — called QCOVID — found just the five … Read more
Motorists in the east of London face the highest premiums in the UK for their car insurance while those in the Isles of Scilly have the lowest, research has revealed. Residents of Newham pay to most for car cover, according to data from Compare the Market, with drivers in the east London borough forking out … Read more