May 20, 2020
Mr Annan, from Blueskiesresearch.org.uk, said an earlier lockdown would have been shorter and had less economic impact. In a related blog, he wrote: “Implementing the lockdown one week earlier would have saved about 30,000 lives in the current wave (based on official numbers, which are themselves a substantial underestimate). “It would also have made for […]
May 20, 2020
Fever hospitals should be brought back to stop dangerous infections like coronavirus spreading within healthcare settings and the community, experts have said. Britain used to have more than 600 small fever and isolation hospitals which were largely shut unless there...
May 20, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic could push an additional 10 million children into acute malnutrition, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The numbers of young children suffering from malnutrition – a life-threatening lack of the nutrients...
May 20, 2020
A study by the University of Hong Kong, published in The Lancet in April, found the virus lasted longest on stainless steel, plastic, and surgical masks, where it lingered for seven days. The lifespan of the virus was tested in average room temperature of 71F (21C)...
May 20, 2020
The findings, led by the National Institutes of Health, have not been peer-reviewed or published, but Professor Robin Shattock, Professor of Mucosal Infection and Immunity, Imperial College London, called the early results “encouraging”. He added:...
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