Mr Tilley, who works for South East Coast Ambulance Service, was giving evidence as a representative of the GMB union. In January 2021, at the peak of the winter wave of the pandemic, he volunteered to move to Sittingbourne, in north Kent, for three weeks, along with 40 colleagues. A new variant of Covid which […]
All Americans can order free COVID-19 tests by mail starting Thursday, the Biden administration announced. Households will be able to order four free tests through the Covidtests.gov website. The tests will be mailed directly to people’s homes, and orders will begin shipping Monday. The move comes ahead of the typical fall and winter respiratory virus season, […]
At the end of his evidence, he was thanked by the inquiry’s chairwoman Baroness Hallett who said “it was obvious how distressing it was for you and reliving such an ordeal is never easy.” England’s chief medical officer Prof Sir Chris Whitty, who was next to speak at the inquiry, said he agreed with the […]
From February 2020 until it was disbanded in 2022, guidance on the use of PPE in healthcare settings was drawn up by the IPC Cell, a group of clinicians and officials from the NHS, government and public-health bodies such as Public Health England, which then Health Secretary Matt Hancock replaced with UKHSA in 2021. Critics […]
National guidance on face masks from April 2020 was drawn up by a group of experts from across the United Kingdom known as the IP (Infection Prevention) Cell. Its membership included representatives from the NHS, government departments and health bodies, including Public Health England (PHE), the organisation replaced by UKHSA in 2021 in a shake-up […]
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was “shocked” by the recent report regarding a former New York City official in charge of the COVID-19 pandemic who admitted he was partying during lockdowns — all while telling others to stay at home. “I had no knowledge of it,” de Blasio said during […]
Symptoms are thought to be the same cold or flu-like ones as before: a high temperature aches tiredness a cough or sore throat Most people feel better within a few weeks of Covid but it can take longer to recover. There has been “strong growth” of XEC in Denmark and Germany, Covid data analyst Mike […]
The NHS had entered the pandemic with about 40,000 nursing and midwifery vacancies in England, Dame Ruth said. And she criticised a “catastrophic decision”, in 2015, to replace the grant or bursary paid to student midwives and nurses with loans. It had led to reduction of about 5,000 trainees in England by 2020, Dame Ruth […]
The GOP-controlled House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Monday published findings from its investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) actions during the COVID-19 pandemic, alleging evidence of the governor’s office deliberately seeking to conceal the extent of nursing home deaths due to the virus. The results of the investigation come […]
In her introductory remarks, lead counsel Jacqueline Carey KC said this module would be “broad and ambitious”. And she made it clear that as well as looking at how the NHS coped, it would explore the position it was in when Covid hit. Quoting the words of the former prime minster Boris Johnson, who told […]