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They are effective against the B.1.1.7 mutation which remains the dominant strain across the United Kingdom and first detected in Kent This weekend Public Health England published a study which showed that cases of the B.1.617.2 strain had risen sharply in the...

An editorial published in the British Medical Journal May 17th by Dr David Smith and Dr Gill tries to answer this question.   They feel that the target is over ambitious and may risk errors.   The UK Government has launched a COVID-19 antiviral...

An interesting study published by Collier and others in the Journal of the American Medical Association published online May 13th 2021 sought to answer this question.   Pregnant women are at an increased risk of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 but have...

A study by Lee and others published in the BMJ Health & Care Informatics 2021 looked into this issue and concluded an increased risk of fatality for patients with COVID-19 plus haematological malignancies and demonstrated similar findings of COVID-19 on melanoma,...

What Is the Real Risk of a Central Venous Thrombosis and Portal VeinThrombosis in Those Vaccinated With COVID-19 Vaccine? A preprint published in medRxiv aimed to estimate the absolute risk of central venous thrombosis and portal venous thrombosis in the two weeks...

The RECOVERY trial An interesting article published in The Lancet by the recovery collaborative group dated May 14Th 2021, sought to answer this question.  Many patients with COVID-19 have been treated with plasma containing anti-SARS-CoV-2...

Bucci and others published correspondence in The Lancet May 12th 2021 reviewing this issue.  They suggest that restricted access to data hampers trust in research.   They go on to continue suggesting that access to data that underpins study findings is imperative to...

Interesting correspondence published by Pan and others in The Lancet Microbe May 12th 2001 tries to question and answer this.   They report that Cevik and colleagues found that no study was able to culture live virus from any respiratory sample taken after day eight...

An editorial in The Lancet Infectious Diseases published on May 14th 2021 queries this question.   As of May 9th 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused 3,277,272 deaths and disrupted the lives of billions of people.   The editorial argues that the...

International Travelto and from England Understanding Covid-19 Testing including Travel from Green list and Amber list countries. Here at the London General Practice we have been working with government approved laboratories to deliver Covid testing to our patients...

Katelyn Jetelina helps to explain the answer yes in her site, ‘Your Local Epidemiologist’.  She says that the vaccines strengthen the immune response to the virus by giving effectively another dose of virus protection.   She also indicates that the...

Who Sheds and Thus Transmits SARS-Cov-2 Virus More, Symptomatic Children,Adolescents or Adults? An interesting study published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases Oxford Academic Journal by Bellon and others 5 May 2021 investigated this subject.  The risk of...

This question appears to have been answered in correspondence in the New England Journal of Medicine May 5 by Abu-Raddad and others.   Qatar launched a mass immunisation campaign with the Pfizer vaccine on December 21, 2020.  As of March 31, 2020, a...

An article by Thomas Drake and others published in The Lancet Rheumatology May 7, 2021 explores this issue.   Early in the pandemic, it was suggested that pre-existing use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, NSAIDs, would lead to an increased disease...

An interesting editorial in The Lancet Haematology published May 2021 explores this issue. COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out globally, yet the AstraZeneca vaccine still continues to be marred with controversy.   This varies from its slow and still...

An interesting article by Murad and others in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology assessed both methods. Clinical lab testing plays a central role in the management of this ongoing pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2.   At its most basic level, it is important to...

An interesting preprint published by Bertrand and others in medRxiv evaluated this issue dated April 25th 2021.  The American College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Society for Maternal Fetal medicine have recommended that the mRNA vaccines produced by...

An interesting article published in Obstetrics and Gynaecology by Naima and others April 26th 2021 researched this important subject to characterise maternal immune response after SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy and to quantify the efficiency of trans-placental...

The CDC published a paper by Shea and others reviewing this on April 30th.   They found that nearly 8 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine had been administered and when they reviewed the safety monitoring data, they found that 97% of...