The Virus By Paul Martin How to finally banish this Covid virus — This awful thing that does acquire us? Its evil aim is to expire us. Yes, whether the germ hit friend or foe It surely struck a mighty blow. [And while corona was on the go, Business prospects remained rather low. Though many bosses no […]
Overcrowded hospitals in England have started offering large cash rewards to families — if they can take their loved ones home. Wards are filling up so heavily because of the backlog of treatments and because of Covid. Yet some beds are occupied by people who don’t need to be there . Because they are not […]
Can you really ‘die of a broken heart’? The answer was: not really….until scientists did a major analysis of one type of apparent heart attack. Now, though, scentists beleive it really does happen. Not in huge numbers, but, nevertheless, very significantly. And it’s rising especially among middle aged and older women. They have found that […]
Protests in the Netherlands by people objecting to being vaccinated have turned ugly. But nothing like as ugly as the devastating effects their refusal is having on intensive care wards in the Netherlands. Latest figures released by government medical authorities show that 69 percent of people in intensive care wards in the first two weeks […]
The UK government website boasts: ‘Lateral flow tests are practical, easy to interpret and can be used in a wide range of settings. This makes them ideal for widespread use in the community.’ That’s true if the person administering the tests on himself or herself wants the true result. But what if the intent is […]
The National Health Service has stopped collecting data on ethnicity when doing Covid testing — even though the ethnic composition of people who may have contracted the illness has been a major issue in Britain and worldwide.
For more than twenty weeks, England’s National Health Service (NHS) was instructing millions of its citizens to swab their throats and nostrils to test for Covid, yet their own medical staff were told not to bother with throat swabs at all. “Take your swab sample (nasal swab only),” reads an instruction on page 2 of […]
There’s not much to make one smile about, reporting on this Covid pandemic. Here’s something irrelevant but mildly amusing: The leading health publication (HSJ, or Health Services Journal), has a top writer called James Illman. Getit? See his article. NOTE: For our section Strange as it Seems, we’re interested in other names that are either […]
There’s an easy and efficient way, say scientists, to treat the extremely rare cases of serious blood-clots that develop from AstraZeneca’s vaccine against Covid. Three patients in Canada developed what is called “vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia”, or VITT, after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine. That produces blood clots — a symptom that led to panic across […]