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Half of class caught Covid from unmasked teacher infected with Delta variant, report finds

Half of students in a California classroom tested positive for COVID-19 after a teacher came into school while infected with the Indian ‘Delta’ vari... read more

Covid UK: Cases rise 2% in a week to 38,046 as hospitalisations creep up by 10%

Britain’s daily coronavirus cases rose by just two per cent in a week today as another 38,046 positive tests were recorded across the home nations. The fi... read more

Hispanics are almost three times as likely to take a door-to-door COVID-19 test

Hispanic Americans are more likely to get a COVID-19 test from a health worker going door-to-door than they are from a neighborhood test site, a new study finds... read more

At-home rapid COVID-19 tests detect almost as many infections as lab tests, study finds 

At-home rapid COVID-19 tests detect almost as many infections as lab tests, study finds A new study compared the accuracy of rapid antigen tests against lab PCR... read more

England’s R rate is now definitely ABOVE one for first time in a month and outbreak grew by 9%

England’s Covid outbreak continued to grow last week with the R rate creeping above one for the first time in a month, an array of official measures revea... read more

Covid-19 UK: Scientists are growing Delta variant in a lab to purposely infect volunteers

Scientists are growing Delta Covid variant in a lab to purposely infect humans (who will be paid up to £4,500 for taking part) Scientists are infecting volunte... read more

Liver shrinking diet: every thing you have to know before bariatric surgery

Do you know what is liver Shrinking diet, and why it is important to do it? Do you know what a liver Shrinking diet is and why it is important to do it? Do you ... read more

Natural immunity from Covid infection could be stronger than vaccination. Israeli study suggests

Natural immunity from Covid infection could be stronger than vaccination in protecting against Delta variant: Recovered patients are 13 TIMES less likely to be ... read more

Less than 25% of pregnant women are vaccinated, hospitals report a surge of cases among them

Pregnant women are one of the least vaccinated groups in America and now are suffering a surge in Covid hospitalizations. Only 23 percent of pregnant women in t... read more

California and Florida ended up with the same Covid outcome until Indian ‘Delta’ variant emerged 

Since the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the U.S., almost no states have been more different in their approaches to the pandemic than California and ... read more

Around 85% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients STILL have not fully recovered months later

A large majority of COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized during last winter’s surge still have not fully recovered, a new study finds. Researchers from... read more

A THIRD of Americans had been infected with COVID-19 by the end of 2020, study finds 

A THIRD of Americans had been infected with COVID-19 by the end of 2020, study finds Around 100 million Americans, nearly a third of the population, contracted ... read more

More than 100,000 Americans are hospitalized with COVID-19 for the first time since January

More than 100,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 for the first time in eight months as the fourth wave of the pandemic continues.   Accord... read more

FDA will likely approve Covid vaccine boosters for Americans after 6 months rather than 8 months

FDA will likely approve Covid vaccine boosters for all Americans after SIX months rather than eight months previously announced by Biden administration Federal ... read more

More than 180,000 children tested positive for COVID-19 last week – a nearly 50% increase

COVID-19 cases among America’s children are surging as schools begin to open up. More than 180,000 kids tested positive for the virus last week, according... read more

A baby died of COVID-19 in Lousiana marking the state’s first pediatric death in six months 

A baby under the age of one has died from COVID-19 in Louisiana. This is the first time in six months that state has recorded a pediatric death from the virus a... read more

Texas town is forced to SHUT DOWN as positive Covid test rate reaches 42%

A small west Texas town’s Covid situation became so dire this week that it had to entirely shut down. Iraan, a city of just over 1,000 people located only... read more

Animated heat map shows progression of COVID-19 pandemic in US

A new animated heat map reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the United States. Created by Notus Analytics, a data company based in Washington, t... read more

Everything You Need To Know About Degenerative Disc Disease

Despite the name, degenerative disc disease isn’t actually a disease. It is simply the name given when you have a damaged disc and it causes you pain. What Ar... read more

Visiting an ENT to address rhinitis

Rhinitis brings about nasal congestion, a runny and itchy nose, and sneezing. This nasal sensitivity can be due to an allergy which is referred to as allergic r... read more

Urologist: What they do and what to expect?

If something is going wrong with your urinary tract or your body’s gadget for putting off your pee. You may need to peer at a unique physician called a ur... read more

Student A level result parties blamed for ‘astonishing’ Covid boom in Leicestershire district

Students celebrating their A-level results have been blamed for a Covid surge in an historic market town in Leicester. Some 1,875 per 100,000 people aged 17 to ... read more

Covid cases have increased by 145% over last month as more than three-quarters of ICU beds are full

Coronavirus cases and deaths are continuing to surge across the country as the fourth wave of the pandemic rages on.  On Tuesday, the U.S. recorded 135,245 cas... read more

Sources say only ‘a few hundred thousand’ of most vulnerable Brits will be eligible for third doses

There are more than 3.7million extremely clinically vulnerable people in England, according to the Office for National Statistics. Of these, around 500,000 are ... read more