Author Archives: Health

Matt Hancock claims Britain’s Covid vaccine roll-out will have a quiet week because of supply issues

Row erupts as Pfizer slaps down Matt Hancock’s claim that supply issues are to blame for slowest ever vaccination day on Sunday after the Health Secretary warns of a quieter week because of ‘ups and downs’ in deliveries Health Secretary says a vaccine dip this week is because of ‘supply schedules’ He says there will… Read More »

ICUs are nearing capacity in this French city. And it’s only September

That’s how Dr. Olivier Joannes-Boyau, head of the intensive care unit at University Hospital in the southwestern city of Bordeaux, describes the resurgence of Covid-19 in France. After young French people took advantage of the lifting of lockdown and summer months to socialize freely, Covid-19 hospitalizations have risen in large cities like Paris, Bordeaux and… Read More »