A New York pediatrician said she thought a staggering 80 per cent of children in the city are infected with the coronavirus as she explained that most kids have not been tested as they are not the priority in hospitals. Dr Dyan Hes, a pediatrician with New York City’s Gramercy Pediatrics, offered the statistic when … Read more
Scammers are increasingly using the guise of streaming giant Netflix to steal money from people during the coronavirus pandemic, a security company says. US cyber safety company BrandShield has detected a total of 639 new domain names registered containing the word ‘Netflix’ in them since the beginning of 2020. More than a third of these … Read more
British drug firms fight to be first in race to beat Covid: Glaxosmithkline teams-up with French rival Sanofi By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:45 BST, 14 April 2020 | Updated: 23:08 BST, 14 April 2020 British drug firms have put themselves at the centre of the battle against the coronavirus with plans … Read more
Banks are set to make more than £600 million in extra interest paid by cash-strapped homeowners taking mortgage holidays, Money Mail can reveal. Campaigners say the vast profit lenders will make from the crisis is ‘disgraceful’ and are demanding they scrap additional interest charges. The breaks are seen as a lifeline for borrowers facing financial … Read more
Doctors at a Brooklyn hospitals are removing coronavirus patients’ blood from their bodies, rejunvenating it with oxygen, and returning it to the patients in an experimental bid to help those on ventilators. The procedure is known as ‘ECMO’ – extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. As critically ill coronavirus patients flood into their hospitals, doctors have noticed a … Read more
Three nurses who were pictured wearing bin bags because of a lack of protective gear have tested positive for coronavirus, it was reported last night. The frontline staff at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow were forced to put clinical waste bags on their heads and feet last month due to shortages of personal protective equipment … Read more
Struggling firms applying for Covid business loans ‘eight times more likely to be rejected than approved’ By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:57 BST, 7 April 2020 | Updated: 23:15 BST, 7 April 2020 Struggling firms which applied to their bank for an emergency business loan last week were eight times more likely … Read more
In the absence of an official Covid-19 death toll – at least one that anyone believes – the people of Belarus rely on an altogether more primitive source of information. A street kiosk in the former Soviet republic’s fourth city, Vitebsk, bore a terse, medieval warning in red spray paint last week. ‘Vitebsk, 22 corpses. … Read more
Giving birth leaves a woman at her most vulnerable. Yet it is also a time for joy — and an opportunity for family members to rally round. But when you’re having a baby in the middle of a pandemic, all bets are off. This week, families and partners have been banned from many delivery wards; … Read more
By Natalie Rahhal, Acting US Health Editor for DailyMail.com HOW DANGEROUS IS CORONAVIRUS? About 14 percent of people who contract the Covid-19 coronavirus are taken to hospital – with severe symptoms including breathing problems and pneumonia. About 5 per cent need intensive care. But the majority who get the virus suffer nothing more than … Read more