MAKING SENSE OF COVID-19

Regular subscribers to this COVID-19 blog may be interested in my new blog, Global Medical Developments, created in conjunction with D H...

When I began this blog in March 2020 I was not expecting to still be writing it 18 months later. COVID-19 is still very much with us but...

As the Delta variant continues to cause high case numbers of COVID-19 cases here in the UK concerns have been growing that the current...

With newspaper headlines announcing “Israel’s worrying fourth wave” and “Israel, Once the Model for Beating Covid, Faces New Surge of...

With 19 July 2021 designated “Freedom Day” in England as all COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, the reality is that COVID-19 is still...

As the UK heads to a lifting of virtually all COVID-19 restrictions on 19 July 2021 the reality is that the pandemic will not suddenly be...

As the UK hopes to lift lockdown restrictions on 19 July 2021 the number of daily cases of COVID-19 is rising rapidly. Fuelled by the...

NB Throughout this piece “children” refers to the ages from birth up to and including 17 years. As the UK COVID-19 vaccination programme...

The announcement at their conference on 11-13 June 2021 that the G7 countries (UK, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Germany & Italy) would...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic it was hoped that the climate of places such as Sub-Saharan Africa and India would be too warm...

UK media headlines are warning that the country could soon be in the grip of a third wave of COVID-19 infection. Citing government...

Usually this blog deals with COVID-19 related subjects that have been in the recent news. This piece is a little different in that it...

As the UK lifts lockdown restrictions concerns are growing that the new variant, dubbed the “Indian Variant,” may stop the return to...

Monday 17 May 2021 sees the lifting of more lockdown restrictions across the UK. At the same time a traffic light system of red, amber...

I have been perturbed over the last few weeks to hear some people say that they won’t be getting their second COVID-19 vaccination....

India Last week’s piece on India – click here to read - highlighted its battle against an overwhelming second wave of COVID-19 that shows...

India is recording its highest ever numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths each day. Having appeared to recover well from its first wave of...

Brazil is recording more COVID-19 deaths each day than any other country in the world. Having never really recovered from either its...

Background to the Moderna vaccine The UK approved the Moderna vaccine on 8 January 2021 and began using it on 7 April 2021 with the first...

Throughout this piece “COVID-19 vaccines” refers to all vaccines currently being manufactured worldwide irrespective of the country of...