Page 25 - David Strain News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A summer third wave: it's the nightmare scenario we all are hoping won't happen when Britain opens up for business on June 21. But predictions of surging Covid-19 infection rates by the Government's scientific advisers would suggest it was almost inevitable. According to a report last month from the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M), which advises the Government on the threat from infectious diseases, despite the success of the Covid jabs, even a small number of unvaccinated Britons could be enough to trigger exponential growth of the virus by early summer.  A 'pessim...

VACCINES may make it “slightly easier” to spread as people don’t know they have the virus, a regional top doctor has said. Dr David Strain, a clinical lead for coronavirus in the south west, told BBC Radio Wiltshire on Thursday morning: “The spread of the virus is more about our behaviour. “The virus is still spreading from person to person and one of the things that a vaccination does that stops you getting symptoms and stops you having appreciable illness from a disease, in many ways it actually can make it slightly easier for that to spread because more people don’t know ...

Company aims to reduce vaccine hesitancy Poll Yes Think Research Corporation launched an educational hub to help clinicians and family physicians promote vaccine confidence and reduce vaccine hesitancy, which is a growing area of concern, says CEO Sachin Aggarwal. “Docs are a real key part of this story,” he said. “Evidence has changed so fast over the course of COVID. Doctors are like you and me, they keep on top of it the best they can, but things are changing rapidly so you need to arm them, and they need to know how to most effectively communicate that information with their patient...

'Interesting' reports between 20 and 50 per cent of long Covid patients find symptoms eased after jab need more research, scientists say

THE coronavirus pandemic may be a "silver lining" for ME patients who have spent decades being neglected and even denied by medical…