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Edmonton (Canada): A new study has explored how reducing sodium intake can help patients with heart failure. The findings of the study were published in the journal, ‘The Lancet’. Though reducing salt intake did not lead to fewer emergency visits, hospitalisations or deaths for patients with heart failure, the researchers did find an improvement in […]

Of those, more than 1 million children experienced the death of one or both parents during the first 14 months of the pandemic, and another half a million experienced the death of a grandparent caregiver living in their own home

The African Covid-19 Critical Care Outcomes Study, co-led by various researchers including from the University of Cape Town, is based on data from 64 hospitals in 10 countries.

According to the review, there is growing evidence that the virus infects both the upper and lower respiratory tracts.

The interval between doses can be safely extended to three months given the protection a single dose offers, which may allow countries to vaccinate a larger proportion of the population more rapidly, the researchers said.

Data on 19,866 volunteers were included in the efficacy analysis - 14,964 of whom received the vaccine and 4,902 the placebo.