As the coronavirus takes its toll again, we are pinning all our hopes on a vaccine “ that might be there before the end of the year. ” Kate Bingham, head of the UK Vaccine Task Force, is tempering expectations. “We don’t know if there will ever be an effective vaccine,” she writes in The … Read more
Now that the corona virus is getting really close for many people, it is time to pull out all the stops. Taking vitamin D would reduce the risk of getting infected. If the virus does get to you, the chance may be smaller that you will become very ill. That’s what professors of immunology, scientists … Read more
This week, there are just as many corona patients in Belgian hospitals as during the first wave. Another doubling is expected before mid-November. At some Brussels hospitals they are already experiencing ‘Italian situations’, reports Het Laatste Nieuws. “This morning, a corona patient who we should have been able to put on the heart-lung machine died”, … Read more
Today, tomorrow and Monday it must become visible that the partial lockdown has sufficient effect, Prime Minister Rutte said on Friday. Today meets that requirement. But we shouldn’t cheer too soon. The RIVM came up with the figures with hours delay and they would be incomplete. If so, they say nothing Infections: 8669 Recordings 92 … Read more
Ukrainian fitness influencer Dmitriy Stuzhuk thought Covid-19 didn’t exist. He eventually died of complications from the disease. Stuzhuk, who had more than a million followers on Instagram, became infected during a trip to Turkey. Back in Ukraine, the 33-year-old fitness fanatic was tested positive and became seriously ill. He had to be hospitalized. After eight … Read more
The number of corona infections is considerably higher in socio-economically weaker neighborhoods than in other parts of the large cities, RTL Nieuws writes. Neighborhoods such as Laak in The Hague, Southeast in Amsterdam and Feijenoord in Rotterdam have a relatively high degree of contamination, according to research by RTL Nieuws into 39 neighborhoods in the … Read more
There may be a flu medicine that can help against the corona virus. Hamsters given a high dose of favipiravir were found to be much less ill. The much more famous drug hydroxychloroquine had no effect. This is reported by KU Leuven, which published the study in the professional journal PNAS. Favipiravir is a drug … Read more
It could just take another year and a half before all corona measures are a thing of the past, the cabinet thinks, which is working on a long-term strategy. Even if there is a vaccine early next year. That’s not because it takes a long time to vaccinate everyone. If there are enough vaccines, it … Read more
Twitter has (again) blocked a tweet from Donald Trump. Trump claimed that the common flu is more deadly than Covid-19 and that we just have to learn to live with the new coronavirus, just like the flu. “Many people die every year, sometimes even more than 100,000 from the flu, despite the fact that there … Read more
Nanoparticles from air pollution have been found in the brains of a number of Mexican children. They are linked to the molecular damage that occurs in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. If future research confirms this discovery, it could have dire consequences, as 90 percent of the world’s population lives in polluted air, The Guardian writes. Medical … Read more