A nurse at the Royal Free Hospital preps a Covid-19 vaccine
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Staff at the Royal Free played a key role in a Covid-19 vaccine study which found that a single dose can significantly boost how protected someone is against new variants of the virus.
If someone has already had mild or asymptomatic Covid, then research on NHS workers - including 200 at the Royal Free - showed a single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine conveys significantly enhanced protection against the coronavirus - including the variants first identified in Kent and South Africa.
The immune systems of those who had not previously had Covid-19 responded less strongly to the first dose of the vaccine - highlighting the importance of second doses in fully protecting people.
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Heart Damage Found in More Than Half of COVID-19 Patients Discharged From Hospitals
MRI scan of a damaged heart. Blue means reduced blood flow, orange is good blood flow. In this figure the inferior part of the heart shows dark blue, so the myocardial blood flow is very reduced. The angiogram shows the coronary artery which supplies the blood to this part of the heart is occluded. The three colored MRI images show different slices of the heart the basal mid and apical slices. Image courtesy of European Heart Journal
March 17, 2021 Around 50% of patients who have been hospitalized with severe COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and have damage to their hearts with elevated troponin levels and ischemia and coronary blocks shown on imaging. The injury was detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans at least a month after discharge, according to new findings published in February in the
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