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New research confirms findings from before the pandemic: that vaccine hesitancy often coincides with broader anti-scientific thinking.
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A cyclical lockdown policy based on odd and even house numbers could be the best way to exit the lockdown.
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Social norms are powerful forces, particularly around the festive season, and risk overriding protective behaviours we’ve adopted this year.
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The NHS will be handing out 200,000 pulse oximeters for people with COVID to measure their blood oxygen levels at home.
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Temperature checks have become a commonplace screening tool for COVID-19, but loss of sense of smell is a more predictive symptom of coronavirus infection than fever.
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Hull-office? Working from Stoke? How the pandemic could turn around decades of decline.
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Hard evidence on how much coronavirus transmission occurs on transport is hard to come by. But there are ways to reduce your risk.
Here’s hoping.
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Soon after Ireland announced the ‘strictest lockdown in Europe’, many other countries followed suit. Here’s how it’s going so far.
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Everyone would benefit from fewer slides, presented more slowly and with more detailed explanation of how the data has been processed.
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British meat processing plants are experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks, but there’s a shortage of statistics in the public domain.
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The current one-off payment of £500 for people on low incomes is not sufficient to get people to follow the rules.
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There have been many reports of co-infection with influenza and COVID-19, but we still don’t have the full picture.
How to be resilient when everything feels out of control.
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Locking down again? You need a wellbeing plan.
Trussell Trust food banks have seen a huge surge in demand this year.
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Adjustments to benefits could stop poor households’ debts increasing and be paid for by those who have gained from lowered outgoings.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected businesses owned by Black, Asian and minority ethnic people. Here’s how we can help them bounce back.
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Winter weather forces us to congregate inside but evidence suggests cold, dry air also helps spread respiratory viruses.
A frugal and ascetic life: a shrine to the hermit Rishu Sennin.
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Medieval Japanese poets and philosophers sought different ways of dealing with disasters and tragedies.
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Current contact-tracing statistics do not track coronavirus positive cases from receiving test results, nor factor in all close contacts for cases. Here’s how to make it better.
Cafe workers in Amsterdam watch a government press conference.
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Citizens feel disillusioned, but it’s not all bad news.
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Antibody levels naturally fade – the key question is whether infected people sustain adequate levels of T cells and B cells.