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Nurses and NHS staff protest over pay rise 'snub'

The Pharma Data

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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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

The Pharma Data

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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Eli Lilly’s Antibody Med Shows Potential in Preventing COVID-19 in the Elderly | 2021-01-21

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Eli Lilly reported yesterday that its monoclonal antibody bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) significantly lessened the risk of contracting COVID-19 among nursing home residents and staff, according to findings from a phase 3 trial. James Miessler. Source link.

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Coronavirus: NHS faces pandemic 'triple whammy' this winter

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. “Despite dire predictions that it would not be able to cope, the NHS has not only managed a huge wave of Covid patients but also continued to treat millions not infected with the virus.

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NHS staff sign up to Covid-19 sniffer dog trial

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Lead research nurse Joanne Walsh says they are recruiting staff volunteers who are about to have a Covid-19 swab test. Kettering General Hospital’s lead nurse for research, Joanne Walsh, said: “Our contribution involves recruiting staff volunteers from colleagues who are about to have a Covid-19 swab test. Image copyright.

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The Definition of “Fully Vaccinated” Needs to Change

Eye on FDA

We are long gone from the days of being threatened by a rampant Alpha virus to having several successive variants. Today CDC provided important insight into the ability of the new variant to make headway with a highly vulnerable population when it released data on infections in the nursing home environment.

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Big Spike Seen in COVID Cases Among Kids

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29, more than 853,000 children in the United States had tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began — 200,000 of them in October alone. “This virus is highly contagious, and as we see spikes in many communities, children are more likely to be infected, too. TUESDAY, Nov. In the week ending Oct.

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