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• UK ITU patients to receive potentially life-saving treatments for COVID-19

  07-01-2021 17:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Patients across the UK who are admitted to intensive care units due to COVID-19 are set to receive new life-saving treatments which can reduce the time spent in hospital by up to 10 days, the Government has announced today (7 January).Results from the Government-funded REMAP-CAP clinical trial published today showed tocilizumab and sarilumab reduced the relative risk of death by 24%, when administered to patients within 24 hours of entering intensive care. Most of the data came from when the dru
  
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• 'You feel you have made a difference': laid-off workers join UK care sector

  07-01-2021 13:35
  
  There are calls to improve pay and conditions in one of few growing areas of jobs market during CovidCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSteve Humphreys, a British Airways cabin crew director, was among 9 million people whose work ground to a halt in the UK this spring. With a screech of tyres his last flight from Barcelona touched down in mid-March, flights were cancelled and a 47-year career in which he served golfer Seve Ballesteros on Concorde and the boxer Nico
  
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• Jewish Care’s residents at Anita Dorfman House at Sandringham receive Covid-19 vaccine

  07-01-2021 10:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than 100 staff and residents received the Covid-19 vaccine at Jewish Care’s Anita Dorfman House at Sandringham, on Tuesday 29 December.The residents are the first Jewish Care residents to be given their initial dose of the Pfizer vaccine as part of the national vaccination programme.The vaccine was delivered by an external team of trained healthcare professionals.So far, more than 80 frontline care and hospitality staff across Jewish Care have also received the first dose of the vacci
  
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• Covid kills half of Sussex care home's residents over Christmas

  07-01-2021 08:00
  
  Exclusive: ‘We’re sitting ducks,’ says Edendale Lodge boss, as fears rise of variant breaching homes’ defencesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA care home in East Sussex has been devastated by Covid, losing half of all its residents to the disease over Christmas, fuelling fears the new, more transmissible virus variant sweeping the south-east of England is beginning to breach homes’ defences.Thirteen of 27 residents at Edendale Lodge
  
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• 'Anxiety levels are high': care home staff brace for Covid's return

  07-01-2021 07:00
  
  Linda Roche tells how the virus ripped through her Buckinghamshire care home in the first wave, and describes her fears at its resurgenceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJulie Roche awoke abruptly at 3am on Tuesday. The weekly Covid-19 test results for staff at her Buckinghamshire care home often arrive in the small hours. After Westbury Grange lost 13 residents in a torrid few weeks in March and April, the resurgence of the virus “terrifies” her and
  
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