If people feel a sense of duty to their local community, they’re more likely to protect themselves and others by taking a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Governments in the west repeatedly failed the public when it came to masks.
So long as vaccines are readily available, vaccine passports can be made to be fair.
If immunity is waning or ineffectual against new variants, then boosters could be needed – but there needs to be evidence that they’re necessary.
The British government has opted to press on with reopening and not wait for the number of fully vaccinated people to rise, while Japan introduces new restrictions ahead of the Olympics.
Comparisons with flu are unhelpful – these diseases need to be treated differently.
Children should only be excluded from school if they are unwell.
When to reopen is a difficult decision that has required authorities to look for the least bad option.
Knowing how much virus someone has in their body when testing positive for COVID-19 allows you to estimate when they picked up the virus.
Early results from several studies have found that pets can pick up COVID-19 from their owner – but they are unlikely to be dangerous as a result.
South Africa now appears to have made a massive error in not rolling out AstraZeneca, while in the UK a study suggests a mix of vaccines may be the way forward.
A study at the University of Oxford has looked at what happens when people receive one dose of AstraZeneca one dose of Pfizer.
Despite fake news commonly being cited as a danger to society, very little research has been conducted on its ability to alter what people think.
Even well-intended studies can cause harm through the nocebo effect.
Despite having left people more exposed to the delta variant now, the strategy helped protect the most vulnerable during the second wave, so was the right call.
A new network of public clinical trials institutes is urgently needed to replenish the empty pipeline for new antibiotics.
Protecting people’s health and stimulating economic recovery are one goal, not competing aims.
Two doses have always been more protective than one, but the delta variant has made the benefit of a second vaccine much greater.
World leaders have called for an end to the pandemic – but the numbers don’t add up.
Carbon dioxide levels can be a proxy for the amount of airborne coronavirus in a room, but plenty of things can mess with the measurements.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Professor in Biomedical Sciences, University of Manchester
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Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde
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Associate Professor in Viral Immunology, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Scientific Officer, University of Leeds
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Principal Lecturer, Microbiology and Biomedical Science Practice, Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science, University of Brighton
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Clinical Research Fellow in Viral Immunology and Veterinary Surgeon, University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
