Health chiefs must redouble their efforts to encourage millions of Britons to get vaccinated against Covid ahead of the winter, MPs warned today.
Nearly 3million adults in England have not had any jabs to protect against the virus, so are at more severe risk of being hospitalised or dying if they get infected. Another 2.7million have only had one dose.
NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency must ‘urgently evaluate which methods are most effective’ for boosting uptake, including
Covid-19 has scuppered countless travel plans, but some countries are relaxing the rules around visitors from the UK – even if they’re unvaccinated.
While countries such as Spain or France require holidaymakers to be fully vaccinated, there are others that don’t require tourists to be jabbed at all, including one on this list that welcomes visitors with no red tape whatsoever.
Whether you’re looking to travel but aren’t fully vaccinated or have a teenager in tow who hasn’t had the
Snow covered the storied field of Fenway Park in Boston when Kate Yohay, in the second trimester of her pregnancy, arrived. The ballpark had become a COVID-19 vaccination site, and Yohay was getting her first shot. “That’s going to be a historical moment for me,” she says. “Like what I remember my parents describing as the day they got their polio vaccines.”
Yohay was about as enthusiastic to get the vaccine in early 2021 as one could be. She felt
An intensive care doctor today said every critically ill coronavirus-infected patient currently being treated at his hospital is unvaccinated.
Dr David Hepburn said there are now no vaccinated Covid patients in critical care at Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, South Wales.
The £350million Specialist Critical Care Centre, which has 24 ICU beds, was opened four months early in November 2020 in order to tackle spiralling coronavirus cases at the time.
But Dr Hepburn said the only people now in treatment
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People who are unjabbed but previously had the Delta Covid variant may have very little protection against Omicron infection, a lab study suggests.
Austrian scientists tested the blood of those who had beat the older strain of the virus against the new super-variant to measure their antibody response.
They found only one out of seven samples produced enough of the infection-fighting proteins to neutralise Omicron.
It suggests that prior infection from Delta alone offers virtually no protection against catching Omicron
A radical new proposal to make unvaccinated patients pay for Covid-19-related hospital admissions is being considered by the New South Wales government and Premier Dominic Perrottet.
The proposal was revealed by 2GB Morning Show host Ray Hadley on Wednesday morning – with the broadcaster claiming the idea had been put forward by cabinet ministers in a ‘rather radical move’.
Hadley claims the proposal doesn’t have the support of the state’s health officials and it’s unclear whether Mr Perrottet is in
The growing number of unvaccinated pregnant women with Covid on labour wards is pushing some maternity services to the brink, NHS doctors have warned.
Senior midwives and obstetricians have revealed that units in certain areas are in a ‘crisis situation’, where already time-stretched staff are being forced to abandon healthy women mid-labour in order to tend to the complex needs of Covid-positive expectant mothers.
There have been problems separating Covid-positive women in birth units from those without the infection, and
This was supposed to be the Christmas in Europe where family and friends could once again embrace holiday festivities and one another. Instead, the continent is the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic as cases soar to record levels in many countries.
With infections spiking again despite nearly two years of restrictions, the health crisis increasingly is pitting citizen against citizen — the vaccinated against the unvaccinated.
Governments desperate to shield overburdened healthcare systems are imposing rules that limit choices
A second woman in less than a month has been denied the opportunity to have a life-saving organ transplant simply because she won’t get vaccinated against COVID.
Leilani Lutali, 56, from Colorado has been denied the chance to have a kidney transplant after the hospital that would have been performing the operation refused to treat her because she hadn’t had the coronavirus vaccine.
Lutali who has stage 5 kidney disease, desperately needs transplant to save her life but in September,
