Two more elders of the Taken Alive family were buried on the frozen North Dakota prairie: Jesse and Cheryl, husband and wife, who died a month apart. “It takes your breath away,” said Ira Taken Alive, the couple’s oldest son. “The amount of knowledge they held, and connection to our past.” One by one, those […]
With the approval of the US Senate, a National Museum of the American Latino and a national museum of women’s history have gotten the green light to proceed in Washington, DC. Both of the museums have been in the works for years and will become part of Smithsonian museums after Congress included them in a […]
A northern California Indian tribe’s sacred land is now back under their ownership, thanks to the help of a conservancy group.The Esselen Tribe, one of the state’s smallest and least well known tribes, inhabited the Santa Lucia Mountains and the Big Sur coast for thousands of years, according to their website. Nearly 250 years ago, […]
WHAT WILL THE DIET LOOK LIKE? BREAKFAST Half a cup of porridge oats made up with water and a splash of cold milk, plus one portion of fruit LUNCH Bowl of lentil soup and slice of wholemeal bread DINNER A second bowl of lentil soup and slice of wholemeal bread EVENING SNACK One portion of fruit Lentil soup can […]
Should the public be wearing face masks to protect themselves from coronavirus?When will a vaccine be ready?How and when will lockdown end? Dr Hilary tries to answer as many of your questions as possible.
Medics fighting COVID-19 in a hospital in Cheshire seem to have cut mortality rates and improved the chances of a quick recovery from the virus by adapting their breathing machines normally used for a sleeping disorder. https://news.sky.com/video/coronavirus-patients-astonishing-progress-with-black-box-treatment-11977910
Millions of pieces of vital personal protective equipment (PPE) are being shipped from British warehouses to Germany, Spain and Italy despite severe shortages in the UK, The Telegraph can disclose. Lorries are being packed with masks, respirators and other PPE kit before heading to supply hospitals in the EU, it has emerged. On Monday night, […]
New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, has said from Friday the public will be ordered to wear face masks in public – and he’s willing to impose civil penalties for anyone breaking the rules. However, messaging from the scientific community on the efficacy of face masks appears divided. The Leader podcast speaks to Dr Babak Javid […]
A bacterial outbreak is sweeping across one of Italy’s most famous olive regions, infecting an estimated one million trees and putting a major part of Europe’s olive production at risk. The bacterium, Xylella fastidious, is threatening to put many families out of business in the southeastern Salento peninsula of Italy (the ‘heel’ of the Italian […]
A World War Two veteran who is walking 100 lengths of his back garden before his 100th birthday has raised nearly £2 million for the NHS in just one week. Tom Moore, 99, says the NHS have been ‘marvellous’ in helping him recover from both a hip replacement and skin cancer on his head over […]
Britain missed three opportunities to be part of an EU scheme to bulk-buy masks, gowns and gloves and has been absent from key talks about future purchases, the Guardian can reveal, as pressure grows on ministers to protect NHS medics and care workers on the coronavirus frontline. European doctors and nurses are preparing to receive […]
A 35% fall in UK GDP has been predicted in the second quarter of this year by the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR). Experts at the independent group predict this will happen if lockdown remains in place for a period of three months, followed by three months of partially lifted restrictions. However, they estimate that […]
Nasty purplish lesions that look like chickenpox, measles or chilblains on toes and feet could be a sign of coronavirus, Spanish and Italian doctors are reporting. Patients with the dark sores, particularly children and adolescents, have tested positive for Covid-19 in Spain, as well as in Italy and France. Among the early reported cases was […]
Dominic Raab tonight confirmed the UK’s coronavirus lockdown will remain in place for the foreseeable future and warned Britain is yet to hit the peak of the outbreak as official statistics showed a further 717 deaths. The First Secretary of State, who continues to deputise for Boris Johnson while the PM recovers from his fight […]
Hong Kong (CNN)China has imposed restrictions on the publication of academic research on the origins of the novel coronavirus, according to a central government directive and online notices published by two Chinese universities, that have since been removed from the web. Under the new policy, all academic papers on Covid-19 will be subject to extra […]
Shi Zhengli, a virologist based in Wuhan, mapped the new coronavirus gene sequence within days but she was “muzzled” by the authorities, fuelling claims of a cover-up in China, China is accused of hiding the findings of a coronavirus expert – known as “Bat Woman” – after she quickly identified the genetic make-up of the […]
The Dutch government is discarding over a million masks that don’t fit properly or have defective filters.The Netherlands has become the latest European country to dump what it says is substandard Chinese-made equipment in the fight against coronavirus, recalling more than half a million face masks from hospitals after they failed quality tests.The Dutch government […]
A lot of 3 million FFP2 masks from China that arrived in Liège last week is useless. “They do not offer sufficient protection,” said Minister Philippe De Backer (Open VLD) in the House. Residential care centers experienced difficulties with test kits. Last Friday, a lot of 3 million FFP2 masks arrived in Liège. The FFP2 masks are the […]
Authorities have begun seizing Chinese-made faulty face masks and other protective clothing that is being exported to Australia to help halt the spread of coronavirus. The ABC has learnt that in recent weeks, Australian Border Force (ABF) officers have intercepted several deliveries of personal protective equipment (PPE) that have been found to be counterfeit or […]
Britain has become the latest country to cry foul about the quality of China’s coronavirus test kits and equipment after the ones the country purchased were deemed too unreliable.Since the outbreak began, China has been accused of multiple cover-ups and deliberately lying about its coronavirus infection and death rates. Beijing has tried to rebrand itself […]
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A country learns about itself in a crisis, and one revelation in the coronavirus emergency is that we can’t make our own penicillin. The first patient successfully treated with the antibiotic was a woman suffering from sepsis in a Connecticut hospital in 1942. Her treatment took up half the country’s supply. Yet in short order […]
The past few weeks have revealed the worst and the best in human responses to the coronavirus crisis – from the supermarket hoarders clearing the shelves to the neighbourhood groups organising help for elderly and vulnerable people. When it comes to the pharmaceutical companies, how should we judge their response? They, after all, hold the […]
Recruitment notices still listed on the official website of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) – just ten miles from the epicentre of the pandemic – show an advert was put out on December 24. WIV is the most advanced laboratory of its kind in mainland China, and is the first to have biosafety level […]
As the medical experts across the world are racing to find a cure for coronavirus, Australian scientists have claimed that ‘Ivermectin’, an anti-parasitic drug, can kill the highly-contagious virus in human body within 48 hours. A collaborative study was led by Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) in Melbourne, Australia, with the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection […]
FFP3 mask? Does it protect against coronavirus? The enduring image of the COVID-19 outbreak is of scores of people wearing surgical masks which cover their mouth and nose. The masks are made out of a disposable fabric such as tissue, and experts state they are ineffective at filtering out the small particles which carry the […]
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Are you Ready!!!!! No-deal Brexit to trigger civil unrest and food shortages, councils across UK warn https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-no-deal-food-medicine-civil-unrest-social-care-councils-a9104961.html