MAKING SENSE OF COVID-19

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

India The Statistics India has been severely impacted by COVID-19. At the time of writing it has recorded 11,308,846 cases and 158,326...

NB Latin America refers to those countries as defined by the World Atlas. (1) Background to COVID-19 in Latin America Latin America has...

NB Throughout this piece “younger children” refers to children aged 11 and under. Schools in the UK are beginning to re-open their doors...

The news this week continues to be dominated by concerns over the South African variant of the COVID-19 virus and concomitant stories...

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...

This piece will look at the current situation in Africa and focus on some of the individual countries of concern. Previously in the blog...

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...

Thank you to all of you who have read my blog and stayed with me over this unprecedented year as we’ve all tried to make sense of the...

Update 21 December 2020 The identification of a new variant of COVID-19, combined with rapidly rising case numbers in London and the...

With so many reports, articles and stories on COVID-19 here is a news round up of the most significant stories this week. The UK On 8...

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

Africa has now recorded over 2 million cases of COVID-19 but relatively few deaths at just under 51,000. (1) In contrast Europe has...

In the early days of the pandemic this blog sought to try and answer questions such as “Will there be a second wave?”, “What will happen...

With the news this week that the first vaccine against COVID-19 may be available within weeks I have been asked many questions about it,...

NB Throughout this piece “younger children” refers to children aged 11 and under. As England enters another lockdown on 5 November 2020...

With some world leaders claiming that COVID-19 is less lethal than flu, and social media offering a platform for many dubious claims...

Following the hospitalisation of US President Donald Trump with COVID-19, an event held at the White House in the preceding week is being...