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Deepti Gurdasani, a senior lecturer in epidemiology at Queen Mary University of London, has tweeted about a new imperial report on the B117 strain. The findings suggest B117 coronavirus is most dominant in the 0-19 age group.
Parakeets face a massive cull as Government officials consider shooting the so-called grey squirrels of the sky, that are Britain s fasted-spreading species of bird.
Sources at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are discussing plans to shoot populations of ring-necked parakeets for the first-time ever.
Between 1995 and 2015, parakeet numbers exploded by 1,455 per cent, with around 170,000 of the bright birds currently thought to be in the UK.
Despite legends that the birds, which were originally native to Africa and India, were brought to Britain by 1960s icon Jimi Hendrix, their origins in the UK actually date back to the 19th century, as early as 1855.
People tend to think of COVID-19 in terms of its physical manifestations, but there’s mounting evidence that it may also mess with your mind. Odd neurological complications, from loss of taste and smell to seizures, have surfaced in some COVID patients, while so-called long haulers have complained of lingering brain fog. Now there’s a possible link between COVID and psychosis.
Doctors around the world are reporting psychotic symptoms in a small number of patients who’ve had the SARS-CoV-2 infection,
The reports are just that: individual episodes of psychosis following a bout of COVID-19. There’s no proof that coronavirus causes psychosis, at least not yet. It’s merely an association that medical professionals have observed, albeit a worrisome one.