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Groote Schuur doctors on benefits of high-flow nasal oxygen — Spotlight report
Spotlight reports that doctors at two of the Western Cape’s most impacted COVID-19 hospitals say they have seen positive outcomes from using high-flow nasal...
COVID-19 database: Amendments around privacy
Although the law permits the National Health Department to develop and maintain a national database to assist in combatting the spread of COVID-19, which...
Problematic response of the elderly to COVID-19 — 27-country survey
Survey results from 27 countries suggest that, despite their increased risk of severe illness due to COVID-19, elderly people are not more willing to...
TAC releases 2020 Pipeline Report
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has announced that it has released the 2020 Pipeline Report. The TAC says: “Our annual review provides an overview...
Cannabis use in patients with cardiovascular risk
A review in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology states that more than two million people with an underlying heart condition use...
Eastern Cape's Nelson Mandela Bay has only 2 ambulances for pandemic patients
Nelson Mandela Bay has only two state ambulances for the transport of COVID-19 patients – one is operating in Port Elizabeth and the other...
Western Cape Premier: COVID-19 peak likely to be flatter, later and longer
Statement by Premier Alan Winde at the weekly COVID-19 digital press conference:
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western Cape, I made...
US Food and Drug Administration authorises IQOS marketing
The US Food and Drug Administration has authorised the marketing of the Philip Morris ‘IQOS Tobacco Heating System’ as a modified risk tobacco product,...
African Peer Review report on lockdwon rights’ violations
A new draft report by the African Peer Review Mechanism on governance during COVID-19 assesses the impact of lockdowns and states of disaster or...
WHO discontinues hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir treatment arms for COVID-19
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that it has accepted the recommendation from the Solidarity Trial’s International Steering Committee to discontinue the trial’s...