Drive-through flu vaccines are set to be given in doctors’ car parks in a bid to stop a potential second wave of coronavirus combining with winter illnesses. Ministers are planning to get more than 30million people vaccinated against the flu to protect the NHS from the threat of double viruses later this year. Experts have … Read more
More Britons have been killed by flu and pneumonia than coronavirus for seven weeks in a row, new data reveals Influenza caused more deaths in UK than Covid-19 between June 19 and July 31 Flu and pneumonia killed 6,626 Britons compared to 2,992 coronavirus deaths Influenza killed almost five times as many people as Covid-19 … Read more
Drive-through flu vaccines are set to be given in doctors’ car parks in a bid to stop a potential second wave of coronavirus combining with winter illnesses. Ministers are planning to get more than 30million people vaccinated against the flu to protect the NHS from the threat of double viruses later this year. Experts have … Read more
Rates of flu and colds have plummeted ‘well below average’ during the coronavirus crisis thanks to lockdown and social distancing, data suggests. Incidence of bronchitis and other viral infections, including laryngitis and tonsillitis, are also much lower than would be expected at this time of year. A report by the Royal College of GPs, collected … Read more
Getting a flu jab could slash the risk of middle-aged people suffering a heart attack or stroke, a study has found. Vaccinated over-50s were 28 per cent less likely to have a heart attack and faced a 47 per cent lower chance of a mini-stroke. Scientists called the results — based on data from 7million … Read more
Getting a flu jab could slash the risk of middle-aged people suffering a heart attack or stroke, a study has found. Vaccinated over-50s were 28 per cent less likely to have a heart attack and faced a 47 per cent lower chance of a mini-stroke. Scientists called the results — based on data from 7million … Read more
The biggest immunisation programme of its kind in British history — that’s how the Government has billed its ambitious new flu vaccination plan. Some 30 million people in England are to be offered a free NHS jab this winter, double the number immunised last year, in a bid to prevent the health service collapsing under … Read more
University of Oxford Oxford University academics began developing the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in January. It is now named AZD1222, after the researchers signed a manufacturing partnership with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. Human trials started on April 23 and they are now in the final phase, with trials being carried out in the UK, Brazil and South … Read more
University of Oxford Oxford University academics began developing the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in January. It is now named AZD1222, after the researchers signed a manufacturing partnership with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. Human trials started on April 23 and they are now in the final phase, with trials being carried out in the UK, Brazil and South … Read more
The Government plans to double its winter flu vaccination programme to 30million people this year, with free jabs for all over-50s and children aged up to 11. Last year, around 15million people received a jab against seasonal flu but ministers hope this will rise to 30million this winter. Experts are concerned about the impact of … Read more