Top news of the week: 09.08.2022.
Monkeypox: Concerns mount over vaccine inequity
Global health experts, including senior World Health Organization officials, have expressed concern that the vaccine inequity that facilitated the spread and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 could ...
Interventions to increase COVID‐19 vaccine uptake: a scoping review
Search methods We searched Cochrane COVID‐19 Study Register, Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded and Emerging Sources Citation Index), WHO COVID‐19 Global literature …
Covid-19: Two NI trusts further ease visiting restrictions
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has meant restrictions on visitors across healthcare settings since 2020.
The Brexit predictions that came true, those that didn’t—and what we didn’t see coming
Six years after the referendum we can disentangle the evidence and judge the effects on health and care, says Richard Vize The battle over Brexit triggered extreme claims about its likely ...
A first update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19
Ball, Marie Coignet, Shannon McCurdy, Spencer Knight, Raghavendran Partha, Brooke Rhead, Miao Zhang, Nathan Berkowitz, Michael Gaddis, Keith Noto, Luong Ruiz, Milos Pavlovic, …
Cost of living crisis 'worse than Covid-19 for hospitality sector'
Greater Manchester's night-time tsar Sacha Lord says trading is now "unviable for many".
Covid in Scotland: Hospital patient numbers drop by 12%
Public Health Scotland data shows that on average there were 1,461 patients in hospital last week.
Covid: Parents urged to get help as speech referrals rise
One speech and language expert says referrals have increased since the Covid pandemic.