‘If Covid didn’t kill me, nothing ever will’
Jake Vujovic spent three weeks on a ventilator last May and is still battling symptoms ten months on. Source link
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I Was Young and Full of Plans — RA Was a Detour I Didn’t Expect
This post is the first in the series My Life With RA, featuring stories of people’s unique experiences of rheumatoid arthritis. By Andy Pendergrass As a young man graduating college and marrying the most wonderful woman I had ever met, life was good and the future looked bright. My new … Read more
Covid: Half with cancer signs didn’t contact GP in first wave
Symptoms left unchecked included lumps, changes to moles and coughing up blood, a survey finds. Source link
Tracey Crouch: ‘I didn’t think I would ever get cancer’
Former minister for sports Tracey Crouch was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 44 years old. Speaking to BBC Breakfast, she encouraged people to talk to their GP if they had any worries, as early diagnosis is key to swift treatment and therefore better outcomes. Source link
IPL 2020: MS Dhoni reveals why Dwayne Bravo didn’t bowl final over, rues Shikhar Dhawan drop catches
Delhi Capitals needed 17 runs in the final over. Shikhar Dhawan was batting on 100 not out. And MS Dhoni brought Ravindra Jadeja to bowl the final over against two-left handers, helping raise quite a few eyebrows. His expert death bowler Dwayne Bravo, who had given away just 1 runs in their win a couple … Read more
‘They didn’t intend their language to be hurtful’
A mother of a young boy with Down’s syndrome is helping to teach people about appropriate language, after being hurt by words people often used. Becca, from Cornwall, uses flashcards to make sure people are aware to say things like saying someone “has Down’s syndrome”, rather than “suffers with Down’s syndrome”. The campaign is being … Read more
UK misplaces data on nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases as ‘excel didn’t have enough columns’
Some 15,841 coronavirus cases that were reported between September 25 and October 2 have not been tabulated on the government dashboard as the “excel sheet did not have enough columns”. While the people testing positive were informed, their contacts were not traced due to the lost data. People attend a busking show in London (Photo: … Read more
Sweden’s COVID Policy Didn’t Create Herd Immunity
THURSDAY, Aug. 13, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Diverging from much of the world, Sweden let COVID-19 spread in hopes the population would develop “herd immunity.” But the risky strategy failed, a new report finds. Rather than imposing a hard lockdown in March as other countries did, the Scandinavian nation relied on individual responsibility to … Read more