Day: 13 April 2021

A new study confirms the benefits of cheap asthma drug Budesonide against Covid for the high-risk. But is it as good as earlier reports suggested?

Almost a quarter of registered Covid deaths are people dying 'with' Covid rather than 'from' it, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The last month has seen more suicides on the Humber Bridge than normally happen in a whole year. Many were young people. The lockdowns are taking their toll on mental health.

There is “every reason for optimism” in Scotland because of its vaccine rollout, according to Nicola Sturgeon, as the next step of the country’s exit from lockdown has been brought forward.

A number of famous musicians have nailed their colours to the good ship lockdown sceptics in the past 12 months, but none quite as illustrious as the latest addition to our ranks: Sir Mick Jagger.

A UK Covid testing firm is set to halve the cost of its PCR test kit to £60. Government rules mean that travel to a "green list" country will still come with the additional testing cost of £240 for a family of four.

Should showing a vaccine passport be a condition of accessing outdoor sporting events? No, says Dr Noah Carl. The level of population immunity is high, and the risk of outdoor transmission is low.

Federal health agencies have called for the US' Johnson & Johnson vaccine rollout to be paused immediately due to cases of recipients developing rare blood clotting disorders within two weeks of being vaccinated.

Has Boris lost his faith in the vaccines? That's certainly the impression you'd get from what he has said this morning. But he is wrong to claim that infections have fallen mainly because of the lockdown.

According to a retail analyst Springboard, shopping activity didn't return to pre-pandemic levels yesterday thanks to the cold weather. Meanwhile, only two in five pubs opened in England due to the lack of suitable outside space.