The past year has been hard on most of us. Who hasn’t felt anxious? Who hasn’t wanted to retreat from the world at times? Staying home when possible as COVID-19 rates climbed felt safer — and in many places was required by lockdown rules. Yet, could growing accustomed to feeling less safe in public spaces… Read More »
Patrons Sari and Peter Melendez enjoy lunch at Katz’s Delicatessen, the famous deli founded in 1888, on the first day of the return to indoor dining for New York City, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in New York, February 12, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Easing mask mandates and reopening restaurants have led to… Read More »
Prof Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: “The focus for GPs and our teams is currently to offer vaccinations to patients from group six… this is a large group of approximately seven million patients, and it is likely some patients in this group will not yet have been invited for their… Read More »
March 03, 2021 — Houston has had cases of every concerning variant of the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a large new genome sequencing study. Public health authorities have flagged the six variants identified in the study as problematic, because they have gene changes that may make the virus more contagious or help it… Read More »
The Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines appear to be exceeding even the most optimistic expectations. New data released by Public Health England (PHE) shows that a single shot of either vaccine reduces the chance of needing hospital treatment by more than 80 percent. For most people, getting a jab will cause only mild and short-lived side… Read More »
Nearly 31% of patients said they had a worse health-related quality of life now, compared to before getting COVID-19, the researchers reported. It’s not yet clear why COVID-19 causes these lasting effects. Many viruses are capable of creating what’s known as “post-viral syndrome,” which experts describe as health problems that persist long after the infection… Read More »
People have asked why I was not blogging about the Covid vaccines. To be honest, I felt there was not enough information for me to be decisive, and I was waiting for more information to become available. However, someone called me and told me about a lot of allergic reactions, including one anaphylactic reaction, at… Read More »