This is the fourth issue of the Covid-19 report: A massive study in the UK found that dying from Covid-19 was strongly associated with being male, older age and deprivation, uncontrolled diabetes, severe asthma and various other medical conditions
This is the fourth issue of the Covid-19 report, giving you the latest in quality science on the pandemicin the UK showed who was dying from the Covid-19 coronavirus.
Not all these excess deaths were necessarily Covid-19. Some people with other diseases might have died because they were squeezed out of the health system, but that, nevertheless, was a consequence of the pandemic. Second, South Africa has a much younger population than Spain, suggesting it would have fewer deaths.
One was a randomised controlled trial of 150 hospitalised patients in China with mild to moderate or severe illness and the other was an observational study of 181 hospitalised patients in France requiring oxygen. The estimates were quite uncertain – but the message that people with Covid-19 could test negative early in the course of their infections was clear.An experimental vaccine being developed by Moderna and clinical research management system Niaid made headlines this week as interim data from a phase 1 trial of the vaccine was made public.
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