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Britains chief medical officer has inspired thousands more school leavers to apply for careers in medicine during the pandemic, a new report says. A surge dubbed the Chris Whitty effect saw a record-breaking number of teenagers apply for university courses in the medical field for 2021 entry. Applicant numbers jumped by a fifth compared to the previous year for medicine and a quarter for nursing, data from the Medical Schools Council (MSC) and UCAS shows.  This will drive up competition for l...

A LEADING microbiologist has raised doubts over plans to abolish Covid-19 restrictions in England next month. He warned today that there could be a “huge number of cases" as the Indian variant of coronavirus surges.  Professor Paul Hunter of the University of East Anglia said that the date of June 21 for the end of the current lockdown could be in doubt if the Indian variant leads to an increase in cases among the elderly and more people needing hospital care. Speaking on BBC Radio 4, Prof ...

Professor Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglia. Picture: UEA - Credit: UEA A leading viral disease expert at the University of East Anglia has raised doubts over coronavirus restrictions fully easing this June.  Professor Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglias Norwich Medical School said the Indian variant of the virus has caused big concerns over whether June 21 is still achievable as the final step of the governments roadmap. B16172 was last week designated as a "varian...

PEOPLE who decline a vaccine linked to rare blood clots “have a real risk of dying from Covid”, an expert has warned.It comes after a study has fo

Vanessa Chalmers, Digital Health Reporter May 4 2021, 9:54 ET Updated: May 4 2021, 12:25 ET THE Indian Covid variants are spreading rapidly in parts of the UK and are the cause of around one in 20 new cases, data shows.  Experts have said the rise of the strain may be “masked” by broadly decreasing infection rates. �� 4 Data from COG-UK suggests 18 per cent of cases in the UK in the week ending May 1 were caused by the Indian variant B.1.617.1. But the data is only provisional. This gr...

Published: 1:53 PM April 26, 2021    A group of scientists has written an open letter calling for restrictions including social distancing and face masks to end by June 21. - Credit: Simon Parkin A UEA expert has said calls from a group of scientists and academics to end coronavirus restrictions are "wrong" and their public appeal is “not the best way forward”. In an open letter, the scientists said "a good society cannot be created by obsessive focus on a single cause of ill-health" and ...

INDIAN BUMMER UK cases of Indian Covid variant DOUBLE in a week to 160 raising fears it could delay roadmap Updated: Apr 18 2021, 6:39 ET Invalid Date, UK cases of the Indian Covid variant have reportedly DOUBLED in a week raising fears its emergence could delay the roadmap to recovery. Professor Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia, discovered the number of confirmed cases had risen from 79 to 160. �� 3 Environment Secretary George Eustice says there is no evi...

“There’s laboratory evidence that both of these are escape mutations,” he said. “Basically, applying what we know about other human coronaviruses would suggest that this is going to be even less controlled by vaccine. “But we don’t know that for certain at the moment.” According to PHE, the variant “includes a number of mutations, including E484Q, L452R, and P681R”. It said that “all appropriate public health interventions will be undertaken, in...

© SYSTEM It was a pitched battle which was done and dusted in less time than half a football match. By the climax, thousands of men lay dead or wounded, while others were scattered to the wind, pursued by vengeful forces who hunted down their enemies and either slaughtered them or transported them to the West Indies. Even now, 275 years later, Culloden is a word which provokes strong emotions among the descendants of those who perished on a brooding, boggy moor, east of Inverness in the Scotti...

The pausing of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine shots has shone further light on the side effects experienced by a very small number of vaccinated people . As has been widely reported, six people – all women aged under 50 – among the 6.8 million given the Johnson & Johnson vaccine have suffered rare blood clots called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). In response, the US, European Union and South Africa have suspended the vaccine’s use while they investigate the side effects...