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Global leaders call for urgent agreement on pandemic deal
A group of more than 100 global leaders has called for governments to reach agreement on an international deal to prepare for and prevent...
Decoding some of Covid’s mysteries, four years on
When the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was an open question, like...
‘Pandemic babies’ have stronger gut health – Irish study
Scientists have discovered that Covid-19 “pandemic babies” appear to have developed a “protection” against allergies that is unique to them, saying lockdown restrictions allowed...
Man shows no severe effects after 217 Covid jabs
A German man claiming to have received 217 Covid-19 vaccines in just 29 months isn’t reacting the way some scientists thought he would.
The 62-year-old...
Undiagnosed diabetes added to Covid death toll
A recent study found that patients with undiagnosed diabetes represented 21.1% of all Covid-19 hospitalisations and 30.5% of all Covid-19 deaths across eight low-...
Persistent Covid more common than thought – UK study
British researchers have found that a higher percentage of the population than initially assumed has had “persistent” Covid-19 infections lasting more than 30 days,...
Scientists find possible Covid ‘brain fog’ cause – Irish study
The mystery surrounding the “brain fog” suffered by people with long Covid may finally have been revealed – with researchers saying that leaky blood...
Medics struggled to break death news during Covid – SA study
Breaking bad news is now an integral part of most healthcare professional training, but it’s important to teach how to do it using different...