Flu, RSV and cost of living will all harm UK child health this winter
23 November 2022
Seasonal infections are set to spike, while the cost-of-living crisis is also expected to affect some children’s mental and physical health
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Covid jab rates vary in England in children of different ethnicities
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In England, 15.8 per cent of children aged 12 to 15 from Gypsy or Roma ethnic groups have received at least one vaccine dose, compared with 83.5 per cent of their counterparts in Chinese ethnic groups
Coronavirus vaccines could cut the risk of long covid by two-fifths
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Being vaccinated against the coronavirus can cut the risk of having long covid symptoms 12 weeks after the infection by 41 per cent
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Sewage surveillance spots new covid-19 variants as effectively as PCRs
18 July 2022
Monitoring waste-water samples for coronavirus remnants enabled researchers in Austria to identify when omicron became the dominant variant and track the virus's transmission in communities
Life expectancy of Native American peoples falls 4.7 years since 2019
30 June 2022
Amid the pandemic, the life expectancy of American Indian or Alaska Native people is thought to have fallen by nearly five years from 2019 to 2021, the biggest decline of any ethnic group in the US
Covid-19 vaccines may ward off long covid even if given post-infection
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Researchers compared the rate of long covid among people who were vaccinated after catching covid-19 with those who developed long covid before being vaccinated
