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Severe coronavirus cases could trigger a rare, muscle-weakening autoimmune disease, report suggests

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Severe coronavirus infections could trigger a rare, muscle-weakening autoimmune disease, report suggests Researchers in Italy tracked three elderly patients who developed fevers as high as 102F and tested positive for coronavirus Five to seven days later, they developed symptoms such as droopy eyelids, double vision and difficulty swallowing  The patients were subsequently diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, which is … Read more

Fitness watches do more harm than good for heart patients, new research suggests

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Fitness watches ‘make you feel guilty and anxious’: Heart patients are warned not to use health-tracking devices as new research suggests they do more harm than good Owners of devices such as Fitbits become more in tune with their health But they suffer anxiety when they miss exercise targets or misinterpret data Researchers said they … Read more

Fitness watches do more harm than good for heart patients, new research suggests

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Fitness watches ‘make you feel guilty and anxious’: Heart patients are warned not to use health-tracking devices as new research suggests they do more harm than good Owners of devices such as Fitbits become more in tune with their health But they suffer anxiety when they miss exercise targets or misinterpret data Researchers said they … Read more

You might be protected from coronavirus if you survived it, CDC suggests

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has suggested for the first time that people who recover from coronavirus might have some immunity to the virus.  But the agency’s updated guidance hints that that protection may not last longer than three months.  ‘People who have tested positive for COVID-19 do not need to quarantine … Read more

Coronavirus led to more NYC ‘excess deaths’ than Spanish flu, study suggests

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The 1918 Spanish flu was more deadly of fatalities in New York City than coronavirus has been in 2020 – but COVID-19 drove up the death toll for the first several months of the year far beyond. what would be seen in a typical year, a new study finds.  At the peak of New York … Read more

Study suggests 3.4m people in England have had Covid-19

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Some 3.4million people in England may have been infected with Covid-19 according to a major study — ten-fold higher than the official UK tally.  Imperial College London scientists have carried out a mass coronavirus surveillance study, involving more than 100,000 volunteers who used home testing kits to check for antibodies, which reveal if someone has previously … Read more

UK’s coronavirus death toll could have topped 100,000 if we didn’t stay at home, study suggests 

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More than 100,000 people could have died from coronavirus in Britain if ministers didn’t tell people to stay at home, research suggests. Dozens of countries have been forced to tell people to stay home and close shops in a bid to stop the Covid-19 pandemic.  Scientists in California have now estimated how stay-at-home policies curbed … Read more

Professor Chris Whitty suggests Britons will have to sacrifice meeting friends and family

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What lockdown easing measures have been postponed today?  Wedding receptions of more than 30 people will no longer be allowed to take place today as had been planned. They are delayed until at least August 14 Test sporting events will be put on ice for the next two weeks until August 15.  Close contact beauty services such … Read more

At-home coronavirus tests may miss infections, study suggests

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Tens of thousands of Americans who swabbed themselves for coronavirus testing may have falsely been told they were free of infection, a new study suggests In an effort to expand stunted, lagging testing in the US, the Food and Drug Administration gave the green light for coronavirus testing using samples collected from low down in … Read more

Trump suggests DELAYING election until votes are ‘secure’

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President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested delaying the November election until ‘people can properly, securely and safely vote.’ But Trump does not have the power to delay the election. That would take an act of Congress, which is highly unlikely to happen. Trump’s pronouncement, however, came right after news the U.S. economy shrank by 33 per cent in … Read more