Western Cape Premier Alan Winde thanks nurses and health care workers during a recent visit to Ceres in the Cape Winelands. PHOTO: Twitter/Premier Alan Winde Gauteng needs to have a strategy on prevention of Covid-19 in order to flatten the curve in the wake of the peak, says Dr Aslam Dasoo of Progressive Health Forum.Among…
Americans should brace themselves for another round of coronavirus in the fall, health professionals and economists say. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released its twice-a-year economic outlook on Wednesday, and presented two scenarios — one where the coronavirus continues to recede, and another where a second wave of rapid contagion erupts later in…
A doctor attends to a Covid-19 patient at an intensive care unit. (Fethi Belaid/AFP) President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted that the country's hospitals still need thousands of ICU beds to deal with the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak.The government's modellers estimate we will need between 25 000 and 35 000 ICU beds between August and…
By Sam Wong , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A commuter wearing a protective face shield at London Waterloo railway station in London.Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Latest coronavirus news as of 5 pm on 21 May Time is running out to prevent a second surge of infection in the UK The NHS…
Peter Muller 5 min read FOR TOO MANY guys, back muscles like the lats and traps get short shrift in training. Not on purpose, of course—after all, who doesn’t want a back that turns heads from behind or fills out a t-shirt like it’s stretched over a Greek statue—but since you can’t see those muscles
It had been a rough few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for osteomyelitis — a bone infection — then spent six weeks in a rehabilitation facility. “It was a struggle,” she said. “I didn’t bounce back too well.” Tompkins returned to her home in San Diego, but she was still taking antibiotics, along
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