Coronavirus | New variant does not increase reinfection risk, disease severity, deaths
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1,769 genome sequenced variant cases were matched with the same number of cases which are distinctly different from the new varian and studied
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1,769 genome sequenced variant cases were matched with the same number of cases which are distinctly different from the new varian and studied Preliminary results from a cohort study found no statistically significant difference in hospitalisation and 28-day case fatality between cases with the new coronavirus variant (VOC 201212/01) and wild-type comparator cases. There was also no significant difference in the likelihood of reinf
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The Southern District Health Board is investigating how an Invercargill man known to have Covid-19 was able to die at home in New Zealand s only community death from the disease.
The death of Alister Peter Brookland, known as Barney, at his Kingswell home on April 14, was one of 66 serious adverse events, including four deaths, reported by the health board in 2019-20.
Brookland was in his 70s.
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It’s been an incredible journey so far for Rita Ora, the 22 year old British singer whose hit singles ‘How We Do (Party)’ and ‘R.I.P’ ft. Tinie Tempah and her latest hit Radioactive have stormed the radio waves. While in Auckland for her show, she took the time to talk with Time Out s Scott Kara to discuss how her journey to stardom has been so far.
This has been a difficult year for everyone, but Sue Wilson has had an especially hard time.
Wilson, 60, said she has been working all her life â mostly in the health care field. But in January, she was working as a kitchen supervisor at the Western Virginia Regional Jail. Sheâd been on the job for just two weeks when she slipped and fell, injuring a knee sheâd had replaced 10 years ago.
It took her five months to find a new job, she said, but in May, she was hired by a local hospital to clean and sterilize surgical instruments. Although many instruments these days are single-use, high-tech equipment such as camera-equipped scopes are used over and over, and must be cleaned by hand each time before theyâre sterilized. When Wilson became ill in July, she was diagnosed with COVID-19, and she said she was told she had been infected by the medical waste she had handled.