Hospitals may be forced to move Covid patients elsewhere
If hospitals begin to transfer patients it will be the first time since the principle of mutual aid was invoked during the peak of the pandemic, when a small number…
Traumatised intensive care nurses ‘sectioned’ in wake of first wave
In April, three front line staff were pictured wearing clinical waste bags on their heads and feet due to a shortage of PPE, with others reportedly forced to share or…
The anti-lockdown arguments have failed. Where next for its opponents?
There are two possible answers. The less convincing is the one used to justify the first lockdown, namely flattening the curve. If hospital capacity is still our chief concern, we…
Test and Trace app’s ‘delete my data’ button undermines its effectiveness, claim top scientists
Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in health protection at the University of East Anglia who has previously advised the World Health Organisation, said the app could be an effective tool…
‘Fourth tier’ of Covid restrictions beckons as scientists pressure Boris Johnson
Hospitalisations have already breached “reasonable worst case” levels, the papers show, and minutes from Sage warned that the NHS is in danger of being overwhelmed without national interventions. Discussions are…
Passing of Nobby Stiles reinforces calls for neurological disease in football to be investigated as an industrial illness
The precise cause of dementia cannot be ascertained while former players are still living, but the Jarvis family donated Alan’s brain and it was from this examination that coroner John…
Justin Welby tells Boris Johnson not to ‘politicise’ child poverty
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, along with the Archbishop of York and other Christian leaders, has written to Mr Johnson to call for the establishment of…
What are the potential exit strategies from Covid lockdown?
Devi Sridhar, professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, said it was vital to drive numbers down and then stop reinfections from elsewhere. “Either we live with…
First drug to halt the effects of Alzheimer’s could be available within a year
Further studies are now underway, which offer such doses to all eligible participants from the earlier trials. If successful, it would be the first treatment designed to delay progression of…
Covid cases are not spiralling out of control, says King’s College
New figures released by the ONS also put the number of daily infections far lower than Imperial’s figures. The ONS estimates that 568,100 people are currently infected, with 51,900 new…