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Research in Germany found the shape, mobility and concentration of sperm dropped in Covid-19 patients, but experts have warned further research is needed to prove a long-term effect. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2NM4Zac

Boris Johnson and Public Health England struck a bullish note after a Berlin commission said there was 'insufficient data to assess the efficacy of the vaccine for persons aged 65 years and older'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2YmsUir

Around 75 per cent of people in Manaus, located in the heart of the Amazon rain forest, were thought to have been infected by the virus during the first wave, which should have sparked 'herd immunity'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/36n7F4p

The Department of Health's announcement comes after Public Health England data showed that infection rates came down in 144 out of 149 local authorities across the country last week. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3psDssi

England, Wales and Northern Ireland gave out 284,954 Covid-19 vaccines on Wednesday, official figures show, as the drive to immunise the UK is off its 400,000-a-day target. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qUytAM

The research by the US firm strongly suggests the vaccine will still be able to kill off the new strain before it can trigger a serious illness; it said the mutations had 'small effects'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2YkaOh0

The latest Test and Trace figures show 56,000 fewer Britons tested positive for the virus in the week to January 20 compared to the previous seven-day spell. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3r3w0nF

Professor Paul Elliot, who leads the Government-commissioned REACT-1 study, admitted a 'decline' in infections may have happened in some regions of England over the third week of lockdown. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3iPC7t6

Greg Fell, director of public health in Sheffield, and Dr Richard Harling, his counterpart in Staffordshire, said the bulk of transmission has always been in people's homes. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/39o2X8x

The potential breakthrough drug touted by the Irish minister is Molnupiravir, a pill that works by triggering errors in the virus's RNA during replication which make it unable to make copies of itself and spread. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/39levt7

Sir Jeremy Farrar cautioned although the rapid rollout of the vaccine is 'hugely positive', the country is in 'something of a race' against a virus that keeps mutating. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2L05rAG

The data shows the average number of Covid-19 cases caught on wards in England has dropped from 553 on January 10 to an average low of 369 on January 25. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2MBg0dF

In a boost to Britain's hopes of ending lockdown, England's deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam said jabs 'couldn't fail to have some effect on transmission'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2Msvdhp

Liverpool University's Professor Calum Semple, who sits on SAGE, warned it 'really would not surprise me if we're looking at another 40 - 50,000 deaths before this burns out'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3iSVIIF

NHS England figures reveal the region had vaccinated the second highest number of its over-80s. But well-placed NHS sources said these supplies would be cut next month. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3acoalb

NHS England data showed the total number of coronavirus patients being admitted to hospital every week has started to fall in every region of England, but it still remains 'incredibly high'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/39jxNPF

Data from the ONS revealed that 53 per cent of people in England who tested positive with the Kent variant, compared to 48 per cent of people who caught other versions of the virus. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2NBzNu5

Sir Simon Stevens, chief of NHS England, said there should be a 'legitimate discussion' about vaccinating public-facing workers such as teachers after vulnerable people. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2Yk6pdO

Sir Simon Stevens said the UK vaccination drive was 'on track' to immunise the most vulnerable Brits with both doses by spring. This, and new therapies, will pave the way for 'a more normal future'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3a437B3

Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) today revealed that, as of January 15, there had been 103,704 Covid fatalities across Britain since the pandemic began. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/36cONoN

Mary Green, from North Tyneside, got her first vaccination on New Year's Eve. But five days later she tested positive for the virus. Scientists say it takes around two weeks to trigger immunity. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3a5dsg0

A nurse described the situation inside the Royal Free Hospital in London as like 'hell' due to the huge number of 'really sick' patients as nearby Barnet Hospital is seeing younger patients. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sSx2EU

Downing Street defied mounting anger from MPs and more evidence of the outbreak has peaked, warning the NHS is still under huge pressure and the curbs will only be lifted when it is 'safe. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2MfnCmc

EXCLUSIVE: Workers at drive-through testing centres aren't being offered tests, despite routinely leaning into cars to take swabs from people's throats and noses. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/397fBbN

Doctors have issued a warning over second doses of coronavirus vaccine. Patients given their first jab have not received an assurance all will get a second jab of the same type in 12 weeks. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qG8vB1

Nadhim Zahawi yesterday blasted claims from a Labour MP that Yorkshire - that is leading the rollout to over-80s - was being punished for its speed, saying it was untrue supplies were diverted. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qEi8QP

A star in the stage show of Magic Mike in Australia has shared the daily diet that keeps him looking and feeling his best, despite gruelling long hours on and off stage. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3iCmHYR

NHS England figures showed 5,176 critical care beds were occupied on January 17. For comparison, there were 3,066 patients in the beds at the same time last winter. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2LKGRnS

Dr Vin Diwakar, NHS London' medical director, tonight slammed Britons attempting to bypass the priority list, describing them as 'morally reprehensible'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qJDf3Y

NHS data published today show that almost 250,000 people in Cumbria and the North East have had a Covid vaccine, compared to just 25,000 in Shropshire and Telford. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3o2a4rq

Analysis from the UEA found the highly-virulent B.1.1.7 strain which evolved in Kent has made it impossible to ever achieve herd immunity with the current effectiveness of vaccines. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qEDSMj

The research from Brazil found 11 of 65 people treated with tocilizumab died 15 days after getting the drug compared to just two for those who did not get the drug. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3p4bYsR

A memo sent to staff at an NHS hospital trust in Southampton reportedly were warned not to give doses any earlier than 12 weeks or the hospital could face action from health chiefs. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sMXUWG

NHS Test & Trace statistics published today showed that the number of people testing positive for coronavirus in England fell by 15 per cent despite a surge of 400,000 more tests in a week. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3911Jjp

The coronavirus vaccinations rollout has been turbocharged today as a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury are brought in to help dish out the jabs. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2XZIu3n

Professor Tim Spector, a King's College London epidemiologist, said the study's testing period wasn't long enough to draw reliable conclusions about how well current restrictions work. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qD695P

NHS England figures published yesterday show that while there were 58,600 Covid-19 deaths in older age groups since the pandemic began, younger people accounted for 4,650 deaths. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3o3Aucm

King's College London researchers studied how good the NEWS2 algorithm was at predicting 1,276 Covid-19 patients admitted to hospital in March and April 2020. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qEMQJp

Florida has become America's new 'super-COVID' hotspot with cases of the highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK more than doubling from 22 to 46. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3bUHd5J

London-based analytics firm Lane Clark and Peacock created a Covid-19 Tracker which uses official data to estimate daily infections across every authority in England over time. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sKaA0P

Britain today recorded its deadliest day of the Covid pandemic for second day in a row with 1,820 more victims. Department of Health figures showed the outbreak is continuing to shrink, however. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2McsLLS

Cases of the B.1.1.7 variant, sometimes known as VOC 202012/01, have been reported in most of continental Europe, as well as in the US, Australia, India, China and Saudi Arabia. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3bTarlD

The UK's chief scientific adviser warned today that face coverings could become the new normal in crowded outdoor places and may have to be used until next winter or longer. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3p2paOV

Sir Patrick, the UK's chief scientific adviser, said in a Q&A on television this morning that he expected vaccines to work against current strains of the virus but that they will likely need updating in future. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2MbtUTy

The Government's chief scientific adviser said a regular flu-style roll out may be required to 'keep on top' of the virus. Scientists fear it could mutate to dodge immunity triggered by the vaccine. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sRVq9Q

The PM warned that 'constraints on supply' were making the situation harder as he was grilled by MPs in the Commons this afternoon, after alarm that the daily rate had fallen for a third consecutive day. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/390GoGL

With less than month to go until Number 10's target of vaccinating 14million of the most vulnerable people expires, pressure is growing on officials to pick up pace. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2M3wfA6

University Hospitals Birmingham and Sherwood Forest Hospitals in Nottinghamshire have been selected to trial the 24/7 roll out, senior Government sources say. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/391lSGc

Dr Nachman Ash, one of Israel's chief coronavirus medics, said people were still getting infected after the first dose - but Israel does not wait more than 3 weeks for the first dose to take effect. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/36ep67t

Liz Kendall, Labour's shadow social care minister, warned the UK is 'in a race against time to vaccinate residents and staff'. She said No10 'must leave no stone unturned to deliver on its promise'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sCeQiV

Today's grisly death toll marks a sharp 30 per cent rise on the 1,243 announced last Tuesday and nearly the double the number of victims a fortnight ago, when there were 860. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2M90KV9

Latest figures show the number of people who received a dose of either the Oxford or Pfizer vaccine at the weekend was about a third lower than the number during the week. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/35Vc9PE

Professor Ravi Gupta, a microbiologist at Cambridge University, told MailOnline 'the time has come' for vaccines to be updated so they are fully effective against new variants of coronavirus. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3itLONr

Recipients of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine developed up to 20 times more antibodies within a week of having the second dose of the jab in the study at the Sheba Medical Centre in Israel. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/39GuZLo

Dr Ollie Hart, a GP in Sheffield, said he was concerned sending text messages may be leading to some over-80s missing their jabs. He urged those still waiting to get in touch with their surgery. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2LCQiWp

The Office for National Statistics found 6,057 people died from the disease in England in the week up to January 8, which was 93 per cent more than the 3,144 the previous seven days. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3nZj00s

Professor Penny Moore, from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa, found in 44 survivors that 48 per cent of them (21) had no immune response to the new variant. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3bRtZqp

It's likely that there have been far more than 54 cases of the variant because COG-UK only analyses 10 per cent of random positive Covid-19 samples across the UK. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2M6JYq0

New variants of the novel coronavirus from the UK, South Africa and Brazil ay be able to bypass the immune response that COVID-19 survivors have developed and allow for easier reinfection. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2LJ4ixI

Cambridge researchers studied 207 people who tested positive for Covid-19 over three months and found people with no symptoms or a mild case had a robust immune response. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/35RbE90

A new coronavirus variant, first seen in Denmark in March, has been identified in California in more than a dozen counties and has been linked to large outbreaks in Santa Clara. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3itlHX1

Data from public health officials in the Netherlands reveals 'a 16 fold difference in viral load' between the over-80s and children younger than 12 years old. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2N8dj3C

Baroness Dido Harding, the boss of NHS Test & Trace, today added that the coronavirus testing system had led to 'substantially fewer' care home outbreaks in the second wave than the first. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3inG5J4

The PM is under pressure to say how and when the brutal restrictions in England will ease after the UK recorded another 37,535 cases - down a fifth from last Monday. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/35RAPZr

Another five million people will be invited to receive a jab from today, with some in Whitehall suggesting the rollout is going so well that the wider population could be covered by June rather than September. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sylRBd

Department of Health figures show a tailing off in fatalities across the capital last week, signalling the second wave may be running out of steam in the city. Its hospitalisations and cases have peaked. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qprfEK

Dr Christina Pagel, a health and mathematics researcher at University College London, said she 'can't imagine anything worse' than vaccinating everyone only for a resistant strain to emerge. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3p7LXZP

Companies helping to achieve Britain's ambitious vaccination programme have told ministers that getting pensioners to vaccination centres in the middle of the night is not 'physically feasible'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2XP9T81

Rachel Gunn, 28, from Ireland, has penned an emotional Instagram post urging people not to ignore symptoms of long covid, after she was diagnosed with blood clots on her lungs. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ipuiKr

Professor Wendy Barclay, from Imperial College London, said: 'There are two different types of Brazilian variants. One of them has been detected [in the UK] and one of them has not.' from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3iesTGt

SAGE said that the rate of spread of the virus appears to have started falling in regions of England that were pushed into Tier 4 before Christmas but it's still rising elsewhere. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/35IMCcc

Some 20 of 138 acute NHS trusts recorded a dip in beds occupied by Covid-19 patients in the seven days to January 12 compared to the previous week. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qhQFUK

Professor Trevor Bedford warned that a higher number of severe infections would lead to more super-strains as it gives the virus additional chances to mutate to evade the immune system. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/38LeGxx

Date from Public Health England (PHE) reveals that in the week to January 14, there were 977 outbreaks of respiratory conditions in care homes with 739 confirmed as Covid. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3nKOveE

Some 27 of 140 major NHS hospitals had no space on critical care wards last Sunday and 12 didn't have a single bed free all week, averaging 100 per cent occupancy. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2XDswvJ

Researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation last week published a paper revealing a woman in Salvador caught Covid-19 a second time because she wasn't immune to the new variant. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qmbKgM

It strongly suggests Tier 4 rules were already slowing England's crisis before the national intervention because lockdown curbs takes weeks to have an effect on case rates. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/38GSGDV

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he is 'hugely concerned' that only a tenth of vaccines across the UK have been distrubuted in the capital. He said he will meet the government about it today. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3nItRvN

In November 2019 there were 4.42million waiting for routine ops, and in November 2018 there were 4.45million waiting for further care, NHS England figures also show. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/38Iwd9N

EXCLUSIVE: The Specialist Pharmacy Service says partially used vials 'must not be onwardly transported'. But NHS advice says it is fine to move them between households. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3bDJkL7

Professor Neil Ferguson - whose modelling that 500,000 Brits could die unless action was taken spooked ministers into the first lockdown last March - said the easing of curbs would be 'gradual'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ieYIic

The letter, seen by the Health Service Journal , says transfers from the East and London will go to the largest Midlands trusts, who may be transferred to smaller trusts. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qo5lBE

Matt Hancock tweeted that he was 'delighted' with the news: 'We're accelerating the Covid vaccine roll-out across the UK.' from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3nDqtlO

There is a roughly three-week time delay between someone catching the disease and dying from it, which means it takes about 21 days for a trend in cases to translate to the fatality figures. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/38IiKi7

Experts from the University of Portsmouth published a scientific article on the usefulness of thermometers which san a person's skin, mostly the forehead, to detect a fever. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3oL8B9Q

Patients in England who are eligible for a vaccine will be contacted and invited to make an appointment through a new national booking service. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/38HbjI0

The narrow needles contain 20 per cent less 'dead space' - where vaccine fluid gets stuck in the syringe and needle - meaning more Britons could be vaccinated with current supplies. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3ibrwbz

Data from Public Health England (PHE) comes from more than 20,000 healthcare workers at more than 100 sites across Britain to see how likely reinfection was. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qj2s5j

Boris Johnson insisted the measures were being kept 'under constant review' as the Labour leader demanded to know why they were looser than last spring despite cases being higher. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3nEzLOv

Hospital admissions began to fall across the capital and the South East by January 6, just two days after lockdown was imposed. This suggests Tier 4 was enough to curb the spread of the virus. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3bvGMPg

England's deputy chief medical officer said extending the social distancing gap would make little difference to the spread of the highly-infectious Kent strain. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3nB7XKJ

Tom Keith-Roach, president of AstraZeneca's UK division, said he was 'confident' that more than a million doses would be usable in Britain next week but said officials told him not to give specifics. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3bE1f4m

Public Health England's Dr Mary Ramsay said it was 'possible' that people's second doses of the Pfizer jab would be put off beyond 12 weeks to give more people a first jab. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3snYmL9

Practices in England that have already vaccinated every patient over the age of 80 and are now looking to dish the jabs out to the over-70s have had their deliveries cancelled. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/38CB3p0

Documents say patients that have not been swabbed will be moved to the homes. But they will need to have been isolating for 14 days and not suffering symptoms of the virus. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/38Bc8lI

A senior UK Government source claimed this morning that Number 10 is considering a 'pilot where vaccinations are offered for longer hours' to gauge demand. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3oFmyq7

Deaths in the year of Covid even outnumbered those of 1940, the year of the Blitz, when mortality rates leaped as tens of thousands were killed in bombing raids. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/39pcKde

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the Commons today the Army can 'do more to assist', as he hinted that the hold-up was due to a lack of stock. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sthg3g

Professor Jon Deeks, a biostatistics expert at the University of Birmingham, said he was worried that the Government was telling people the tests are better than they are. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3oDW5sV

EXCLUSIVE: The UK Department of Health said the Innova rapid test, which is for use by 'trained clinical personnel' was rebranded as an NHS test so it could be 'flexible' and used as a self-test. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3byLFa3

So far the Government has only announced two cases of the variant in the UK. But a top SAGE scientist claimed a 'small' number of Brits tested positive for the strain over the last few weeks. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3skhERy

Boris Johnson has been holding a virtual meeting with his senior team as they consider the next move in the crisis wreaking havoc on the country. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3oCdmmf

Developed by experts at New York's Cornell University, the disposable, transparent helmets are connected to a pump that creates a reverse flow of air around the head. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3nwy71m

Superdrug and Boots say they've had multiple stores around England on standby ready to help with the national effort for weeks but have yet to receive a single dose of vaccine. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3i4BFqm

Healthy people made up 5 per cent of 25,080 total Covid deaths in England during the first wave. Whereas they accounted for only 3 per cent of the 12,125 Covid deaths in the third wave. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3bJhv4n

Office for National Statistics (ONS) numbers show 31.2 per cent of deaths in the five days to January 2 - 3,144 out of 10,069 - had Covid mentioned on their death certificates. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3oBjNGg

Ministers have refused to rule out tougher lockdown restrictions for England, but national testing data shows that infections appear to be levelling off in recent days amid a national lockdown. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3qcdlWA

From 4am on Friday, those arriving in England - including UK nationals - will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure. Pictured: Chloe Ferry in Dubai. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3bruw2c

EXCLUSIVE: British food and lifestyle writer Sam Rice created the Midlife Method after noticing weight around her middle once she hit her 40s. She shares an extract with Femail. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2MNsXBg

Experts fear at least another 25,000 deaths are already baked into the figures because of infections that occurred in December. And cases will not peak until January, triggering more fatalities. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3btN01X

It is reported that a Cabinet subcommittee known as 'Covid O' discussed limiting collection services to just supermarkets. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3i5RkWy

More than 80,000 medics and volunteers will operate from 2,700 centres across the UK to inoculate 32 million Britons within 16 weeks, and the taskforce could swell to 300,000. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3oCUZNR

Leading members of the Sage scientific advisory panel want the measure raised from 'one metre plus' to 'two metres plus', in practice changing the limit to three metres - nearly 10ft. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3nyjFWI

Lily Turton, from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, transformed her physique while still enjoying her favourite meals - and says anyone can do the same. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3sdahLC

With a successful vaccine drive No10's only hope of ever ending the constant cycle of tough lockdowns, officials have faced pressure to reveal how they intend to protect the UK from coronavirus. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3seZUqz

Analysis by Edge Health suggests as many as half of people in Barking & Dagenham, Newham, Redbridge and Havering may have had Covid-19 already, which could slow transmission in future. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/38wsmMU

Boris Johnson faced a backlash today after he was spotted cycling in the Olympic Park seven miles from Downing Street in apparent breach of government advice. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2LCaqaz

Despite the UK's sluggish immunisation drive crying out for help to get it up to speed, retired medics are having to provide proof of 'data security' training to be able to join the national effort. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2XviX1M