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The countries where many Dutch people vacation – France, Spain and Italy – were at the center of the epidemic. And the situation there is still shaky. There are some holiday countries where measures were taken quickly and effectively, so that the virus has managed less and is now virtually gone. So countries where it … Read more

The blue light of your phone makes you fall asleep worse. We cannot concentrate for longer than 25 minutes and children have a shorter attention span than before. It is all not true. “Myths of concentration” is what professor of cognitive psychology Stefan van der Stigchel calls them. The professor at Utrecht University specializes in … Read more

On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the mortality rate in 24 European countries surveyed totaled 159,000. That is 9 percent more than the number of reported corona deaths in these countries. The death rate means that 159,000 more people died than in the same period last year. The official death toll from … Read more

Almost half of the patients in a Gelderland institution did not have a correct diagnosis, research shows among a hundred people with a psychiatric disorder. Trouw reports that. The patients had been in the GGNet institution for decades. They faced conditions such as psychoses and schizophrenia. In 49 percent, the diagnosis was outdated, incomplete or … Read more

In many cases, after you are cured from Covid-19, it is not ready. Thousands of patients suffer from lung complaints. The injury, including severely reduced lung contents, may be permanent. That says the chairman of the Dutch Association of Doctors for Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis (Nvalt) Leon van den Toorn in Algemeen Dagblad. “In severe … Read more

People with a genetic mutation that increases the risk of dementia may also have a higher risk of a severe form of Covid-19. This is evident from a new study by the British university of Exeter, about which British quality newspaper The Guardian writes. To be precise, it concerns the e4 variant of the ApoE … Read more

Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli thinks many more dangerous viruses will emerge if we don’t do more to prevent that. Zhengli, who identified the current coronavirus, calls Covid-19 “just the tip of the iceberg.” In an interview with Chinese state broadcaster CGTN, the virologist who has studied coronaviruses in bats for 16 years said, “There are … Read more

There were a few examples this weekend: a whole restaurant in Germany, a church in Frankfurt and a meat factory in Groenlo. All three a lot of infections, all three probably started with a “super spreader”. And then of course there is the legendary bartender in Ischgl, who is at the beginning of outbreaks in … Read more