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From prostate concerns to long Covid – Dr Jeff answers your health questions

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/19631737/dr-jeff-prostate-cancer-long-covid/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Covid jab maker Moderna sues rival Pfizer claiming it COPIED its vaccine

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/19630449/moderna-sue-pfizer-covid-vaccine-copy/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

From sweating to chronic lethargy, Dr Zoe Williams answers your health problems

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/19647773/back-pain-ibs-stress-dr-zoe/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Britain's Covid threat now at lowest since pandemic began

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/19671402/covid-threat-alert-level-low/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Is Spar open today? Queen funeral Bank Holiday opening times

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/19852812/spar-open-today-queen-funeral-bank-holiday/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Is Co-op open today? Queen funeral Bank Holiday opening times

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/19848802/co-op-bank-holiday-opening-times/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Covid deaths up for another week by 40% - as latest wave ‘peaks’

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/20216236/covid-deaths-up-latest-wave-peaks/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Deadly fungal infections surge as 19 strains 'pose threat to humanity'

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/20226258/fungal-surge-threat-humanity/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Warning to parents as flu cases soar - amid fears of hospitalisations in young

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/20239346/warning-parents-flu-cases-soar/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Covid deaths up for another week by 40% - as latest wave ‘peaks’

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/20216236/covid-deaths-up-latest-wave-peaks/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

STAYING HEALTHY

• Is the COVID-19 pandemic over, or not?

How will we know when it ends — and does it matter?

- October 26, 2022
By Robert H. Shmerling (see full bio), MD, Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing

It seems like a long time since the pandemic began. And now, as so much of life looks like it did before the pandemic, it’s reasonable to wonder: is it over? It sure seems like it — even the president said so in September, and COVID precautions are barely seen in some locales.

Still, we continue to have thousands of new COVID-19 infections and hundreds of related deaths in this country each day. So, is it truly over? And what changes if that determination is ever formally made?...(read more)

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THE BOTTOM LINE

- It’s possible that experts will agree one day on a standard definition of "pandemic" and how to mark its arrival and departure. Already, policies regarding the pandemic (including financial assistance), and efforts to increase vaccination acceptance, are complicated by suggestions we’re past the pandemic when we’re actually not.
There’s a lot that’s still uncertain about the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, one thing seems clear: we can’t call it fully over yet.

- Harward Health Publishing
HARWARD MEDICAL SCHOOL

(health.harward.edu)

(Covid-19 patients being treated. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

New York Times
The Coronavirus Pandemic >

• Biden Says the Pandemic Is Over. But at Least 400 People Are Dying Daily.

- The president made the remark in an interview that aired on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday night. By Monday, the backlash was in full swing.

Sept. 19, 2022
• By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

WASHINGTON — With 400 to 500 Americans still dying every day of Covid-19, President Biden has declared that “the pandemic is over.”
But don’t tell that to people like Debra McCoskey-Reisert, whose mother died in early August. Or Ben HsuBorger, who has chronic fatigue syndrome, a condition often brought on by viruses, including the coronavirus. Or Peter W. Goodman, whose wife died on Aug. 17. (Read more at NY Times)

China face 4 million Covid cases & 5,000 deaths a day in 'thermonuclear' surge

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20846368/china-faces-million-covid-cases-deaths-day-crematoriums-burn/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Warning China's ‘thermonuclear’ Covid outbreak could spawn new mutation

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20819639/china-covid-outbreak-spawn-new-variant-warning/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Flu patients in hospital hit 'highest level in a decade' over Xmas after surge

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/20952654/flu-patients-hospital-highest-level-decade-christmas/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

What is a high temperature for an adult & a child & when should I see a doctor?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/11204975/high-temperature-adult-child-doctor/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

Warning to anyone who's had Covid - it 'increases silent killer risk by 55%'

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/21420773/covid-increases-risk-of-silent-killers/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram

I'm a cardiologist - silent killers rising in young and vaping could be to blame

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/21489018/cardiologist-vaping-heart-attacks-young/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=coronavirustelegram