UK study finds one in two severe Covid hospital cases develop complications. Other updates: 🇨🇱 Chilean Sinovac trial leaders recommend third dose 🇸🇰 Slovakia pledges 10,000 vaccine doses to Taiwan 🇸🇰 Brazil registers 1,548 deaths More here:
A patient under treatment lies on a bed in the emergency Covid-19 ward at the Mellino Mellini hospital in Chiari, northern Italy, March 8, 2021. As many as one in every two people hospitalised with severe Covid-19 go on to develop other health complications, according to comprehensive new research released.
Data from more than 70,000 hospital patients across more than 300 British hospitals was collected for the research. The rate of complications was high even among "young, previously healthy" patients, with 27 percent of 19-29 year olds and 37 percent of 30-39 year olds experiencing at least one complication after being hospitalised with Covid-19.The leaders of a Chilean late-stage human trial of the CoronaVac Covid-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac has recommended a third dose of the jab to protect against the more contagious Delta variant.
However, the study showed a drop-off in protective antibody levels after six months and Kalergis said he recommended the application of a third, "booster dose" to provide better protection against virus mutations.Taiwan has garnered another donation of coronavirus vaccines, this time from Slovakia which has pledged 10,000 doses in what the central European country said was a show of support after a Taiwanese gift of face masks to Slovakia last year.
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