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Two new, large studies from England and Mexico provide new details on obesity as a risk factor for poor COVID-19–related outcomes, including death, with the UK study noting the highest hospitalization rate in young adults.
Hospitalization, ICU admission
In the first study, published yesterday in
The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, University of Oxford researchers extracted data from the QResearch database for nearly 7 million English patients 20 years and older with available body mass index (BMI) values registered at an eligible general practice from Jan 24 to Apr 30, 2020.
It is the largest study to date assessing body weight and COVID outcomes.
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Lateral flow tests have been dished out twice a week at schools since March
Professor John Deeks says the high false positives rate has done harm
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A Kashmiri man receives the Covid vaccine in Srinagar. Only one in 500 people in low-income countries have been vaccinated. Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPA
A Kashmiri man receives the Covid vaccine in Srinagar. Only one in 500 people in low-income countries have been vaccinated. Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPA
Wed 28 Apr 2021 02.00 EDT
Leading scientists are urging the UK to share the Covid vaccines it has bought with India and other nations, to tackle the soaring death toll and reduce the spread of the virus and new variants around the world.
Sir Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, said rich countries including the UK that have bought up most of the vaccine supply “urgently need to start sharing these doses with the rest of the world, alongside national rollouts in their own countries, and through the Covax programme. And they must set out a timetable for how these donations will be increased as they vaccinate more of their populations domestically.”
The global roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines continues. Image: REUTERS/Jorge Silva - RC2R4N9GSO3V
28 Apr 2021
The World Economic Forum held an Issue Briefing to mark World Immunization Week.
Experts from around the globe discussed how can we ensure vaccine equity, build trust in COVID-19 vaccines and strengthen health systems.
Here are some of the key quotes from the panellists.
But the vast majority of these have been in developed countries, meaning the pandemic continues to spread in those countries that don t have equal access to vaccines.
At an Issue Briefing held by the World Economic Forum to mark World Immunization Week, experts from around the globe discussed how can we ensure vaccine equity, build trust in COVID-19 vaccines and strengthen health systems to prepare for the next pandemic.