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Moderna said in its phase 3 clinical trials they recorded 196 infections, but only 11 of these were in people who received the vaccine. They added that no safety concerns were raised during the trial. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/36mRrZz

The Prime Minister is battling to quell a Tory revolt as he unveiled a series of concessions in a bid to persuade backbenchers to back a tougher tiers system in a Commons vote tomorrow. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3odp1rb

A spokesman for the Cabinet Office suggested today that care home residents in England will be included in the three household bubble rule over Christmas.. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3mo2cjZ

Baroness Dido Harding told NHS bosses her team was investigating the passports. She hoped the NHS Covid-19 app would soon be able to display whether someone was vaccinated. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3fLOSDu

The dog is believed to have caught Covid in April when Mr Johnson was fighting for his life at St Thomas' Hospital in London. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3o8TmqM

Mel Khaled, from Walthamstow in East London, had continued going to work during lockdown because she was not offered furlough by her bosses and didn't want to lose her job. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3lg0tvF

EXCLUSIVE: As many as a third of England's local authorities - 51 out of 149 - have seen falls in infection rates over the weeks ending November 15 and November 22, according to Public Health England. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3fNHhEn

Boris Johnson was under mounting pressure today to change the course of his coronavirus lockdown plans after figures showed the UK had 16,022 more cases today - down a fifth from last Friday's number. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3o27MJe

Anger over the whole of Kent being dragged in Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions deepened today after a shocking new map showed nearly half of the county had 'low' infection rates. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3q3ynY1

SAGE - Number 10 's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies - estimates the 'R' is between 0.9 and 1.0 across the whole of the UK, down from 1.0 and 1.1 last week. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/33lg8DV

A report by the Office for National Statistics found that there were 28,300 more deaths than expected in England and Wales last winter, which was higher than in 2018-19 but lower than 2017-18. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/37duUxx

Medway, East Sussex and Redbridge, in London, were the only three areas in England to record a rise in Covid-19 infections, according to the latest surveillance report from Public Health England. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3q56ij9

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A cluster of coronavirus which was first detected in fruit pickers in northern Spain spread across the continent over summer before increasingly rapidly in local communities, driving the second wave. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3m7etsO

Chris Whitty (pictured) refused to back the injection when asked about the controversy surrounding data from its late-stage trials at a Downing Street press conference. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3nZtNIr

Kent's infection rates vary widely between its 12 boroughs, with the area with the highest rate having a level four times above that with the lowest rate. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3o0Jyz2

Some 3.2million women in England have been screened for the cancer in the last 12 months, down 240,000 on the 3.43million checked last year. The NHS shut down in March to free up beds for Covid. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3mbFM5c

Department of Health figures show daily infections have now been dropping for a fortnight and are 23.4 per cent down on the 22,915 Covid-19 cases recorded last Thursday. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3mdDxhK

This week's Office for National Statistics report, brought forward to coincide with England's local lockdown announcements today, shows 633,000 people are thought to be infected. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2J40vtE

The decision to save the capital from Tier 3 will be a relief to many in the hospitality industry who will be able to reopen with limitations when the current national lockdown ends on December 2. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/39emBnT

Bosses at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital insisting their wards were 'very busy'. They had on average 85 out of 647 beds filled with Covid-19 patients in the week ending November 17. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3m4A6dj

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Nottinghamshire health boss Sarah Carter said in a council meeting that the health system was 'poised' to start giving a vaccine to members of the public from December 9, in 13 days' time. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3m8s2s3

Hilda Bastian, an accomplished Australian scientist turned writer who blogs for the British Medical Journal (BMJ), claims data from the Oxford trials has been 'patched together'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/363sphO

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Department of Health statistics show UK infections have dropped 7 per cent week-on-week, with 19,609 positive tests confirmed last Wednesday as the outbreak continues to tail off. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3l35BDb

Lawyers at the firm Morgan Lewis said people must give their consent to be vaccinated and it is unlikely this would be considered valid under UK law if they were under pressure from their boss. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2V1bG8F

Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, said today it is 'more likely than not' that Ministers will put his area in the 'very high' level when the national lockdown ends next Wednesday. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/33gyPsk

Just 9,854 new infections were recorded in England yesterday, almost half of the number of diagnoses last Tuesday (18,626). from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/33ja3Ym

NHS GPs in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Somerset were told to stop using a batch of gloves delivered this month after officials found they had been used and packed into unopened boxes. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/361aHvy

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Councillors in Kent have accused members of the public of not following social distancing rules closely enough while experts said it was hard to prove people behave worse in particular areas. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/33ecg7I

Today's infections marked a fall of 43.6 per cent on the 20,051 recorded last Tuesday and a drop of 27 per cent on yesterday's figure of 15,450. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/33doME6

Indian researchers found the virus droplets evaporate dramatically and turns into a pancake-like film which allows the virus to stay on a surface for several hours. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3pZjyWA

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Boris Johnson will set out which tiers local authorities will fall into on Thursday, but he has warned many are expected to enter the higher tiers. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3nXPN6N

Eminent statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter suggested the Government tried to manipulate Britons rather than genuinely inform them on the true scale of the crisis. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2Hx4U7B

Researchers at St. Jude's department of immunology in Tennessee found the combination of cytokines TNF-alpha and INF-gamma creates the cytokine storm. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/35XauJM

Speaking to Parliament's Health and Social Care Committee today, Mr Hancock said: 'Why in Britain do we think it's acceptable to soldier on and go into work if you have a runny nose?' from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3fw0SsM

The weekly report from the Office for National Statistics showed that the numbers of people dying of any cause is higher than average in all regions of England and Wales, driven up by Covid fatalities. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/39bcQGX

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Care homes in the UK could get a system in which each resident can have up to two regular visitors who will be tested for coronavirus twice a week so they can stop social distancing. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/370593I

An NHS reserve, similar to the one used by the military and the police in case of emergencies, may be set up in the UK under plans being considered by Number 10. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/374rvAS

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A rising infection rate in the capital, bucking the trend for most of England, has raised the possibility it could be plunged into the harshest Tier Three restrictions. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3m4k17q

Boris Johnson has given care home residents a glimmer of Christmas hope by vowing to roll-out rapid tests for visitors by the end of the year. Plans will see residents allowed two designated 'key visitors'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/378w9hE

Researchers from Harvard University have found youngsters are willing to sacrifice their own happiness to punish others for bad behaviour. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2J1kDfp

The Health Secretary said in a TV briefing today that the Government has officially asked the UK drugs regulator, the MHRA, to consider licensing Pfizer's vaccine. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/36Vyaxu

Chemicals already approved for human use have been combined to make the spray and lab studies show it inhibits the ability of the coronavirus to bind to human cells. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3lQSzKn

Healthcare workers and the most vulnerable could start receiving the jabs in just 12 days, according to leaked documents handed to NHS regional leaders yesterday. The documents are dated November 13. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3kRsnxI

Scientists from the University of Georgia claim the MMR jab, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, prevents people from getting seriously unwell with Covid-19. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/2ITaeTo

The American pharmaceutical giant - most famous for making Viagra - claims its vaccine is 95 per cent effective and works in older people most vulnerable to Covid. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/391Ay8k

The chairman of Parliament's Health and Social Care Select Committee said the Government needed to offer people 'proper incentives' to get tested for Covid-19. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3fdXXok

Research among 2,847 key workers from the NHS, police and fire service in June found that 25 per cent of participants had high levels of T-cells which recognised Covid. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3lNPXge

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Oxford University's Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson said there had been 'a troubling lack of robust evidence on face masks and Covid-19'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3fbIuFi

817 over-65 Covid patients were admitted to hospital and became part of the US-wide study. 226 (28 per cent) were delirius, making it the sixth most common symptom. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/32ZB4Ad

Patients given the drug in the REMAP-CAP trial, led by Imperial College London, were 87 per cent more likely to see their illness improve than those not given the drug. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3pKtm6I

In a statement today, Denmark's health ministry said there had been 'no new cases of Cluster 5 since September 15' which led it to conclude the strain 'has most likely been eradicated'. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/331kvUl

Dr Matías Fosco of Favaloro Foundation University Hospital in Buenos Aires, led the study and said stress, poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle were likely to blame. from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/35HtU5h

An Office for National Statistics report today found that of the 43,265 fatalities recorded last month in England, 3,367 involved Covid-19 (7.8 per cent). from Health News | Mail Online https://ift.tt/3kPhQD7

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