The CDC has recommended that people fit their mask more closely, or double up in order to reduce air leakage and enhance their protection by an estimated 90%.
Words like “breastfeeding” and even “mothers” are out, as a major British hospital trust pushes a new ‘trans friendly’ policy. Midwives at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust have been told to stop using terms including “breastfeeding” and “breastmilk”- and even ordered to ditch the term mother and use the phrase “birthing parent”. […]
French nun Sister Andre will celebrate her 117th birthday later this week.
The public health chief said that might not happen before autumn, when vaccination rates are high enough to create herd immunity.
“I do actually find it inexcusable that staff on nursing homes or those roles would not take the vaccine, to be frank.”
Prof. Luke O’Neill told RTÉ viewers that plastic bubbles could allow people to attend gigs again, after a Flaming Lips concert took place with the audience standing in zorbs.
An article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), one of the world’s leading medical journals, by the journal’s executive editor, Kamran Abassi, has claimed that “Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain”. “Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health,” he added. The article criticised […]
Births in Italy in December fell by a massive 21.6%, as experts predict a “baby bust” because of the effects of the Covid lockdown. The decline in births was announced by Italian statistics agency ISTAT, who sampled numbers from 15 Italian cities to make their findings. The news will add to Italy’s demographic woes with […]
Campbell had written on Facebook that he could not imagine the BBC allowing an all-white line-up on Songs of Praise.
The Rural Independent Group has strongly criticised the government’s inaction at addressing the staffing crisis in health. This follows the release of new information in a parliamentary reply, to the group’s Leader, Deputy Mattie Mc Grath, which confirmed a mere 0.4 per cent of healthcare workers who applied to “Be On Call For Ireland”, have […]
The High Court has ruled that insurance giant FBD must compensate four pub owners for disruption to their businesses due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The landmark decision may affect claims being made by almost 1,000 Irish pubs and restaurants. The four test actions were taken by three Dublin bars Aberken, trading as Sinnotts Bar; Hyper Trust […]
A study of more than 1,400 mothers and newborns has shown that antibodies can protect against the coronavirus in almost 90% of cases. Dr. Dustin Flannery, a neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, found that protective antibodies were transferred across the placenta in 72 out of 83 infected or previously infected pregnant women. The study, published […]