MAKING SENSE OF COVID-19

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...

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...

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...

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...

Once again the COVID-19 vaccine, specifically the AZ (AstraZeneca) vaccine, has been dominating the news headlines this week. The...

The COVID-19 vaccines, in particular the AstraZeneca vaccine, have dominated the news this last week for a mixture of reasons. As more...

In December 2020 the blog piece “The New Variant of COVID-19” (click here to read) addressed the issue of what a virus mutation is and if...

As vaccination against COVID-19 is rolled out across the UK people are understandably asking more questions about it. The piece entitled...

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine (henceforth referred to as the AZ vaccine) was approved in the UK on 30 December 2020. A joint project...

With the news that the UK has approved the first vaccine for COVID-19 this piece will look specifically at this one, made by...