A care home where 36 residents and staff coasted through a major coronavirus outbreak has given scientists fresh hope. Covid-19 infected 23 dementia sufferers at the specialist home, including a husband terminally ill with cancer.
Yet not one person at Cheaney Court suffered anything but mild symptoms, and none needed hospital treatment. A leading professor dared to suggest that the care home’s great escape could be proof the virus is “weakening”.
Prof Karol Sikora, a former WHO director, cited doctors in Italy who last week claimed the virus had “enormously weakened”.
He said: “What has happened at this care home is fascinating. It would be very useful to study. The most likely explanation is the virus has mutated. “So although it