A major test apparently showing that antibodies produced to fight a Covid-19 infection decline by 25 per cent in three months appears to have a serious flaw. But the professor who masterminded the government-funded study has told correspondent.world that their methodology benefited from a “perfect storm”.
It’s a huge reversal of Israeli policy. A government that has blocked the sale of the world’s most advanced jetfighters to any Arab country has swiftly changed its mind.
The headline of a surprisingly candid article in The Times by Dr Raghib Ali, of Cambridge University, on October 22 2020 declared: “Racism wasn’t to blame for differing Covid death rates.”
Correspondent.world is alarmed by the many errors creeping into British broadcast and print reportage.
The British Medical Journal has pointed out that there are huge advantages in using a rapid saliva test for Covid, even though they appear to be 20 per cent less accuracte in detecting the disease. A very convincing American analysis has already shown its benefits, as correspondent.world previously reported. Here’s what the BMJ wrote: In […]
Taghi Amirani, presenter and producer of Coup 53, a two-hour feature documentary about the British role in the 1953 Iranian coup d’etat, has suddenly withdrawn it from digital circulation, after its main investigative claims were publicly rejected by the producers of the 1985 television series End of Empire.
Here’s a surprise. A huge meta-study of over 28 thousand patients with high blood pressure who were also suffering from Covid-19 showed they were much more likely to survive or have a good outcome, than those who had high blood pressure and took a different kind of anti-high-blood-pressure drug.
A drone caught a close encounter between a surfer and a shark in Australia.(© Surf Life Saving NSW) A drone camera caught a close encounter between a surfer and a white shark off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, last week. These drones were immediately ahiled as the best way worldwide to gurard against […]
An artist’s image of an Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star. The ‘habitable planet’ was identified by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. (© NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech)
Facing a death toll that is proportionally the worst in the world relative to its population size, Iran has been supplying its armed forces and paramilitary units with a Covid-19 detection device that is fake. They are thought to be the same (or very similar) contraptions to the ones sold to Iraq and a range […]
Is it necessary to send small children home from school when one in a ‘bubble’ gets Covid? And the scandal of letting parents congregate outside schools and not properly social-distancing. 11 September 2020 By PAUL MARTIN Is it time for the UK government to get a dose of educational and medical reality? Why has the government made […]
Guardian staff have spent a week waiting for redundancy letters only to be told they were sent with insufficient postage – and that they might be asked to pay the difference and then claim it back.
American scientists say kits costing less than five dollars can be sent to people’s homes and, when a test is taken more than once, will be far faster than current more sophisticated tests to uncover that a person is infectious with Covid-19. This can mean, they say, that we can nip the spread of the […]
AB De Villiers is showing he is at least South Africa’s second-best batsman – as well as being a fine fielder and wicket-keeper. Despite a long absence from international and most local cricket, he’s been performing very well in recent weeks in the most important (and most lucrative) forum of the very short game: the […]
It was October 6 1981 and I was having a very pleasant off-duty day in Egypt. My superior BBC colleague was in charge.
It was October 6 1981 and I was having a very pleasant off-duty day in Egypt. My superior BBC colleague was in charge. My wife Anne and I had just enjoyed three days at the Club Med, on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, snorkelling, seeing underwater coral reefs. sunbathing and eating […]
On October 6 1980 I watched Anwar Sadat at the peak of his powers, reviewing his troops at a military ‘Victory Parade’ in Cairo. One year later, I was reporting from Cairo as he was shot dead at the same location, along with ten others.
The sudden illness of President Donald Trump, struck down with Covid-19, opens up the intriguing possibility that he may be in no fit condition to perform his onerous duties as President again. In a worst-case scenario, he might die. Or, if he’s really ill, his Party might urge him to withdraw from the Election — […]