COVID-19 Treatment Paxlovid

by Dr Wayne Cottrell | Dec 20, 2023 | COVID, covid-19, Paxlovid

What is Paxlovid? Paxlovid is an oral antiviral medication developed by Pfizer to treat COVID-19. Approved by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), it is a combination of two drugs: Nirmatrelvir, which inhibits a protein the virus...

Can I still use my EHIC card?

by Luke Hutton | Mar 15, 2021 | COVID, covid-19, EHIC Cards, Travel vaccinations, World news

EHIC or European Health Insurance Cards have been in use since 2006 and have given travellers access to free emergency medical treatment when injured or poorly abroad. Unfortunately, all this changed from the 1st of January 2021, and now many travellers are left...

COVID passport – What you need to know.

by Dr Wayne Cottrell | Feb 24, 2021 | COVID, covid-19, Travel vaccinations, World news

2020 has been a year of stay-cations, albeit camping in the confines of the living room or, if you were lucky, the garden! With all that becoming a distant memory, travel companies predict a massive increase in bookings for the first quarter of 2021. Although you may...

Coronavirus

by Dr Wayne Cottrell | Feb 13, 2013 | COVID, Uncategorised

There is a lot of talk about coronaviruses at the moment. This is because there seems to be evidence that for the first time the virus has been transmitted from one person to another. In the past this was not thought to be possible. Human coronaviruses were first...