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Without a plan in place to minimise infection, a ‘moving on’ strategy leaves vulnerable people behind
As the season of Christmas work parties and drinks with friends begins, it feels a distance from the December of two years ago, at the height of the pandemic. We will hug our grandparents, (...)
We’re in a better position compared with 2020 and 2021, but the pandemic isn’t over yet.
The UK is now approaching its third Christmas of the COVID pandemic. And this year feels different. There’s little question we’re in a better position compared with 2020 and 2021.
In 2020, Christmas plans (...)
In a new book, the former health secretary blames everyone but himself for Covid. It’s disgusting
‘Matt Hancock unleashed.” It’s a potent image and one, I suspect, we all could have done without. But the Daily Mail has papers to sell and this was how it chose to promote its serialisation of the (...)
Announcement by Boris Johnson shows Rishi Sunak has won out over Sajid Javid in cabinet battle over funding
Covid laws and free mass testing are to be swept away across England after Rishi Sunak won a cabinet battle on cutting the cost of the pandemic, prompting fears that the poor and (...)
Being proved wrong lies at the heart of scientific progress. Here, experts reveal what they got wrong during the pandemic
Einstein once observed that “a scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others”. Aside from the “he”, the (...)
Scientists warn Boris Johnson that failure means new Covid variants will put thousands of lives at risk across UK
Boris Johnson was urged to support efforts to suspend intellectual property rules that stop lower-income nations from manufacturing vaccines, tests, and treatments. Photograph: (...)
Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert says this will not be the last time a virus threatens our lives and our livelihoods
The coronavirus pandemic that has so far killed more than 5 million people worldwide is far from over and the next one could be even more lethal, the creator of the Oxford/AstraZeneca (...)
Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust, suggests emergence of Omicron variant means pandemic is far from over.
The emergence of the Omicron variant shows that the world is “closer to the start of the pandemic than the end”, one of Britain’s most senior scientific figures has warned, as he (...)
At least a dozen officials have called for further precautions in their areas as government holds off on plan B
Local public health chiefs in England are breaking from the government’s official guidance and recommending so-called plan B protective measures to combat a surge in coronavirus (...)
29% rise in referrals for first suspected episode of psychosis between April 2019 and April 2021
Cases of psychosis have risen over the past two years in England as an increasing number of people experience hallucinations and delusional thinking amid the stresses of the Covid-19 pandemic. (...)
Exclusive: Report from planning exercise in 2016 alerted government of need to stockpile PPE and set up contact tracing system.
Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a (...)
Exclusive: Private hospitals in England also performed far fewer operations on NHS-funded patients despite multi-billion pound deal with government.
Private hospitals treated a total of just eight Covid patients a day during the pandemic despite a multi-billion pound deal with the government (...)
Confirmed infections have dropped 21.5% week on week – though recorded deaths are still on the rise.
Is this how it ends? After an 18-month rollercoaster of soaring and falling cases, and more than 100,000 UK deaths, is the epidemic fizzling out? Has immunity finally got the upper hand, or will (...)
Allowing mass infections now is a terrible idea, even with so many vaccinated. The NHS will struggle to cope.
There were almost 194,000 new cases of Covid-19 reported in England last week, which is 35% more than the week before. At the time of writing, 52% of the UK population had been fully (...)
As the third wave of the pandemic takes hold across England, the UK Government plans to further re-open the nation. Implicit in this decision is the acceptance that infections will surge, but that this does not matter because vaccines have “broken the link between infection and mortality”.1 On (...)
Vulnerable and immunocompromised people anxious about 19 July end to Covid rules.
Boris Johnson’s “freedom day” will be a day of fear for elderly and vulnerable people and those with compromised or suppressed immune systems, for whom the efficacy of vaccines is much reduced, charities have (...)
PM will make England most unrestricted country in Europe despite saying cases could soar to 50,000 before date is reached.
Sajid Javid, the health secretary, told the Commons that schools should expect to stop sending home “bubbles” of children from 19 July, in time for many children’s summer (...)
Sajid Javid provided the trailer, and Boris Johnson the main event. Ignoring surging infections, rising hospitalisations, and warnings about the prevalence of long Covid and incubating more infectious, deadlier variants, the Prime Minister announced the removal of practically all pandemic (...)
This is a modified version of a talk Rowan Fortune given for ZeroCovid on the reactionary thought behind opposition to public health policies during the Coronavirus pandemic.
There are a heady mix of anti-vaccine claims linked to Covid-19. Some are startlingly improbable from a cursory (...)
Roy Wilkes analyses the ongoing threat from the global pandemic – and the reactionary political forces it is unleashing.
Covid continues to rage across the globe, with over 400,000 new cases every day. Here in the UK a third wave is now firmly established and growing exponentially, with case (...)
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