Dentists warn of years of delay as thousands of children are on Scots waiting lists for tooth extraction
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Dentists warn of years of delay as thousands of children are on Scots waiting lists for tooth extraction Thousands of children are on Scots waiting lists for tooth extractions through the Covid-19 crisis which may take years to clear, dentists have warned. Prior to the onset of the pandemic, some boards had waiting times of six months and the Covid crisis is expected to have made this terrible situation worse, according to the British Dental Association. The union which acts as the voice of dentists and dental students in the UK has now urged all candidates contesting the Scottish election to pledge to commit to tackling the shameful inequalities in oral health set to go into overdrive as a result of the pandemic.
When can pregnant women and children get Covid vaccines? Everything you need to know
Vanessa Chalmers, Digital Health Reporter
Apr 6 2021, 11:40 ET
BRITS are eager to get the first dose of their potentially life-saving Covid vaccine in the next few months.
But for pregnant women, it s still unclear when their date will be. Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates.
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Pregnant women can only get the Covid vaccine if they are at unavoidable risk or have an underlying health conditionCredit: Getty - Contributor
Children are also unable to get the Covid jab.
But both groups can catch the coronavirus - so when will they be protected?
Call for urgent reform as GMC uses appeal powers 14 times since Bawa-Garba case
Healthcare leaders have urged the government to speed up plans to halt GMC appeals against fitness to practice decisions - warning the regulator has used its powers more than a dozen times since its controversial appeal in the case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba.
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The Paediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (called PIMS) has multiple names such as hyperinflammatory syndrome, Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), and Kawasaki Disease.
This syndrome complex is associated with COVID-19 and is present mainly in children.
Children s Healthcare Canada created a webinar that provides an overview of the current epidemiology of COVID-19 with a focus on the newly defined PIMS. Here are some explanations that were given by the clinical presentation.
Relationship between PIMS and COVID-19
When all started in late December 2019 early January 2020, when a large number of pneumonia cases were reported from Wuhan, China, coronavirus was identified as a causative agent. On April 7, 2020, the first case of a child with Kawasaki Disease co-infected COVID-19 was reported. However, it wasn t all until April 27 that the m
In just over a week, millions of Britons will be dining at restaurants, returning to exercise classes and, at long last, getting a haircut. This easing of lockdown rules is a remarkable feat, given that just eight weeks ago Covid deaths stood at 1,500 a day and the population was stuck inside with no hope of an imminent escape.
The turnaround is all down to the astonishing success of the Covid vaccine rollout, with nearly two-thirds of the adult population now protected. There is ‘nothing in the data to delay’ the continued easing of lockdown, the Prime Minister said last week.