The second highest group of sufferers with long COVID work in teaching or education according to new data from the Office for National Statistics. 3 out of every 100 people working in the teaching and education sector are suffering with self-reported long COVID in the four week period ending 6 December 2021 according to the data. This is a 17% increase from the previous month, the largest increase out of all employment sectors. https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/8361890/ Long COVID is when symptoms continue after the infection period and can last weeks or months. It is also known as post-COVID-19 syndrome. The top reported symptoms are tiredness, loss of smell,…
Author: Kirstin Bunce
Rising global temperatures have been linked to an increase of blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients from research at De Montfort University Leicester.Dr Abdullah Alghamdi, analysed diabetes patients records at a hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia over six years and found that for every 1°C rising in temperature, the average blood sugar level in patients rose by 0.007%.