“The staggering human toll of the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic is a profound tragedy and a massive societal failure at multiple levels.” Professor Jeffrey Sachs
Millions of Preventable Deaths: The Global Failures of #Covid-19
The Impact of #Covid on People with Diabetes
People with diabetes were almost twice as likely to die with Covid and almost three times as likely to be critically or severely ill compared to those without diabetes.
“We are deeply concerned about reports of attacks on health facilities and health workers.” WHO on #Ukraine
“WHO is supporting neighbouring countries to address key health issues among refugees and forcibly displaced persons, including mental health and psychological assistance”
#Covid Symptoms: “narrow definition is now likely to impede control of transmission”
“The UK’s narrow clinical case definition impedes not only the identification of cases but also the understanding of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.”
2 More #Covid Cases Recorded in Orkney
The cumulative total for positive Covid test results recorded in Orkney now stands at 102.
World Health Organisation Urges ‘Collective’ Response to #Covid19
“And while there is a wish amongst leaders to protect their own people first, the response to this pandemic must be collective.” WHO
New Research to Combat Tuberculosis
“Our research identifies a previously unknown mechanism that could block protein synthesis and potentially treat tuberculosis and other infections.”
Edward Jenner: #OnThisDay
On 17th of May 1749 Edward Jenner was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England.
We need to worry about Africa…..
“I hope that in the understandable and necessary preoccupation with what is immediately affecting us we do not forget others. “
Testing Times
‘“At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful.”
