Scientists launch trial to deliberately infect people with coronavirus after they already caught it University of Oxford trial to test what level of immune prevents re-infection This will involve exposing people who have had Covid-19 to the virus once again Results could allow for vaccines that produce the golden level of immunity By Daily Mail … Read more
New York COVID variant could infect vaccinated residents and those who have already had the virus, former FDA head Dr. Scott Gottlieb warns By Jenny Stanton For Dailymail.com Published: 20:35 GMT, 21 March 2021 | Updated: 20:47 GMT, 21 March 2021 Dr. Scott Gottlieb has warned that the New York variant of COVID-19 could reinfect … Read more
New York COVID variant could infect vaccinated residents and those who have already had the virus, former FDA head Dr. Scott Gottlieb warns By Jenny Stanton For Dailymail.com Published: 20:35 GMT, 21 March 2021 | Updated: 20:37 GMT, 21 March 2021 Dr. Scott Gottlieb has warned that the New York variant of COVID-19 could reinfect … Read more
GravityRAT, a malware that was previously known for spying on Windows devices has now been identified to be infecting Android and macOS devices. The criminal spyware was used to target Indian Armed forces initially and is believed to have been created by a Pakistani hacker group. It has been active since 2015 and was then … Read more
The UK is set to become the first country in the world to deliberately infect healthy volunteers with the coronavirus, the Government has confirmed. Up to 90 volunteers would receive a dose of Covid-19 through their nose – a common transmission route – in challenge trials aiming to find the ‘lowest possible safe dose’ before … Read more
Edward Jenner pictured in a portrait Esteemed scientist Edward Jenner used the eight-year-old son of his gardener for the first ever challenge trial, with just a hunch as to whether it would be successful. Luckily, it worked. And the study led to the invention of the smallpox vaccine, which saw the debilitating disease eradicated in … Read more
It is the biggest story in the world right now. What happens in the US matters more than anything else for our economy and our savings – and the possibility that Donald Trump might be incapacitated a month before the presidential election piles uncertainty onto uncertainty for all of us. So what does it mean … Read more
A crumpled blue shirt and cords, beaten-up brown lace-ups and five-day stubble – it’s the classic, bookish Oxford student uniform that makes Seán McPartlin seem an unlikely hero in the war against Covid-19. But that’s exactly what he might become. Astonishingly, the 22-year-old philosophy postgraduate student is one of a handful of men and women … Read more
The two British scientists at the forefront of the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine have clashed over a controversial plan to deliberately infect people with the virus. Professor Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, is in the advanced stages of setting up a human trial for one of the most promising … Read more
A crumpled blue shirt and cords, beaten-up brown lace-ups and five-day stubble – it’s the classic, bookish Oxford student uniform that makes Seán McPartlin seem an unlikely hero in the war against Covid-19. But that’s exactly what he might become. Astonishingly, the 22-year-old philosophy postgraduate student is one of a handful of men and women … Read more