Old and vulnerable people ‘AREN’T getting their Covid jabs’

UK ‘faces vaccine chaos’: Doctors warn jab rollout could turn into shambles like PPE fiasco with hundreds of GP surgeries still waiting for Pfizer jabs and elderly patients facing last-minute cancellations At one health centre in South London 75 doses of the vaccine were left over  The Pfizer vaccine must be used within five days … Read more

Rupert Murdoch, 89, receives Covid vaccine as Fox News hosts are sceptical about jabs

Rupert Murdoch, 89, gets the Covid vaccine an the NHS at his local GP surgery… while Fox News hosts question the jabs and create doubts about whether public should be ‘nervous’ Billionaire was whisked to a dedicated centre in Henley, Oxfordshire this week Mr Murdoch said he ‘strongly encouraged’ people worldwide to get the jab  … Read more

Current vaccination speed would take UK a decade to get coronavirus jabs to everyone

Britain won’t vaccinate all 30million vulnerable residents against Covid for a decade, if Number 10’s mammoth operation continues at the current speed. Department of Health bosses today claimed 137,897 people across Britain were given the approved Pfizer/BioNTech jab during the first eight days of the UK’s biggest-ever vaccination drive. At that rate — roughly 17,237 … Read more

Hot balloon that frees diabetics from insulin jabs begins trials

A procedure that involves inflating a hot balloon inside the gut could reverse type 2 diabetes and free thousands of patients from daily insulin injections, say doctors. The pioneering operation is set to be offered to a handful of British patients as part of an international trial, after promising early results which saw three-quarters of … Read more

Nearly half of care home staff WON’T take Covid vaccine as bosses call to make jabs compulsory

Nearly half of care home staff won’t take the coronavirus vaccine, with bosses desperately calling on ministers to make jabs compulsory among healthcare workers. Nadra Ahmed, chairman of the National Care Association, said as many as 40% of carers could choose not to take up the option as it is rolled out over the coming … Read more

Nearly half of care home staff WON’T take Covid vaccine as bosses call to make jabs compulsory

Nearly half of care home staff won’t take the coronavirus vaccine, with bosses desperately calling on ministers to make jabs compulsory among healthcare workers. Nadra Ahmed, chairman of the National Care Association, said as many as 40% of carers could choose not to take up the option as it is rolled out over the coming … Read more

Good luck with that! Russians are told to lay off alcohol for nearly two months around Covid jabs 

Good luck with that! Russians are told to lay off alcohol for nearly two months when having Covid jabs Consumer safety watchdog head Anna Popova issued the advice on Tuesday  Sputnik V vaccine recipients should avoid alcohol for two weeks before jab, she said, then for 42 days after the first injection The drug’s developer … Read more

Half-dose of Oxford vaccine was NOT a ‘mistake’ and was known before people got jabs, scientists say

Oxford scientists say the more effective half-dose regimen of their coronavirus vaccine was not given by ‘mistake’. In a hit back against claims that the team had accidentally given people the wrong doses of the vaccine, the researchers said they had known the doses would be smaller because of a manufacturing issue before they injected … Read more

Half-dose of Oxford vaccine was NOT a ‘mistake’ and was known before people got jabs, scientists say

Oxford scientists say the more effective half-dose regimen of their coronavirus vaccine was not given by ‘mistake’. In a hit back against claims that the team had accidentally given people the wrong doses of the vaccine, the researchers said they had known the doses would be smaller because of a manufacturing issue before they injected … Read more

CDC’s tool that will track first Americans to receive jabs may be vulnerable to anti-vaxxers

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