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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: Iceni Diagnostics creates new virus detection device and the RDIF announce its vaccine is more than 95 per cent efficient

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UK firm develops solution for identifying whether patients are actually infectious from a virus or not. Iceni Diagnostics has revealed it is developing a new technology that can disclose if patients are actually infectious with a live virus or not. Read on to for the full insight.

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Coronavirus: Health workers' army to be trained to deliver Covid vaccine

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said this could include training a wider range of existing NHS staff, as well as student doctors and nurses. UK signs deals for 90 million virus vaccine doses. It might also involve training other professionals, including dentists and vets.

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mRNA vaccines slash risk of COVID-19 infection by 91% in fully vaccinated people

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“We gave these vaccines to some of the highest risk groups in this country–doctors, nurses, and first responders,” Yoon says. “These are the people who are getting exposure to the virus day in and day out, and the vaccine protected them against getting the disease.

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Ambulnz and Rapid Reliable Testing Partner with NYC Test & Trace Corps to Launch Rapid COVID-19 Testing on Mobile Units

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Their experienced medical field staff of 1,500 EMTs, paramedics and licensed practical nurses work under the guidance of MD1 Medical Care PC to fill the gap between a visit to the doctor’s office and a traditional telemedicine call.

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Topical Gene Therapy FDA-Approved for Severe Skin Disease, Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

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“Until now, doctors and nurses had no way to stop blisters and wounds from developing on dystrophic EB patient skin and all we could do was to give them bandages and helplessly watch as new blisters formed. This DNA Science post from 2018 traces the history of the efforts. Earlier results were published in Nature Medicine.

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RECOVERY Trial Data Monitoring Committee Recommends Continuing Evaluation of REGN-COV2 in All Hospitalized Patients

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The trial is supported by a grant to the University of Oxford from UK Research and Innovation / National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and by core funding provided by NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre , Wellcome , the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , the Department for International Development , Health Data Research UK , the (..)

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Nurses and NHS staff protest over pay rise 'snub'

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Hundreds of nurses and NHS staff in Wales are to protest at being excluded from a recent pay rise announcement. One nurse said: “To be ignored felt like a kick in the teeth after what we’ve been through during the pandemic.” “I was so scared I even wrote a will,” said nurse Naomi Jenkins.

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