Vaccines boost as proportion of adults who would REFUSE to have a jab more than halves

Vaccines boost as proportion of adults who would REFUSE to have a jab more than halves in four months to just 6%- as take-up among ethnic minority Britons soars Just 6% of Brits would probably or definitely refuse a jab in March That was down from 14% in December, according to IpsosMORI Proportion of non-white … Read more

‘Alarmingly high’ proportion of British people are vitamin D deficient

When? September. By who? Cordoba University in Spain. What did scientists study? 50 Covid-19 hospital patients with Covid-19 were given vitamin D. Their health outcomes were compared with 26 volunteers in a control group who were not given the tablets. What did they find? Only one of the 50 patients needed intensive care and none died. … Read more

‘Alarmingly high’ proportion of British people are vitamin D deficient

When? September. By who? Cordoba University in Spain. What did scientists study? 50 Covid-19 hospital patients with Covid-19 were given vitamin D. Their health outcomes were compared with 26 volunteers in a control group who were not given the tablets. What did they find? Only one of the 50 patients needed intensive care and none died. … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Test & Trace reaches smallest ever proportion of at-risk contacts

England’s Test & Trace system had its busiest ever week at the end of October but reached a smaller proportion of at-risk people than at any point since it started. The contact-tracing programme, which phones, texts and emails people who have been close to someone who later tested positive for Covid-19, failed to get hold … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Test & Trace reaches smallest ever proportion of at-risk contacts

England’s Test & Trace system had its busiest ever week at the end of October but reached a smaller proportion of at-risk people than at any point since it started. The contact-tracing programme, which phones, texts and emails people who have been close to someone who later tested positive for Covid-19, failed to get hold … Read more

Coronavirus: High proportion of young infected die from strokes

A surge in reports of healthy young coronavirus patients suffering deadly strokes has sparked fears the killer illness may cause blood clots in the brain. Doctors at hospitals in New York City and Philadelphia say they have ‘never seen so many’ young people suffer large vessel occlusions, the deadliest type of stroke.  A study in … Read more