World Health Organization (WHO) director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for moratorium on COVID booster shots.
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There are two ways to look at it: self-interest versus altruism.
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A recent Sage report discussed the potential for vaccination or slaughter of pet dogs and cats should a much more deadly variant emerge.
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Hand washing isn’t just ‘hygiene theatre’.
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Cases of this variant – which has some potential to escape the effects of vaccines – have risen recently in France and Spain.
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We may be witnessing the signs of COVID developing into an endemic disease in the UK.
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Research shows shared traumas drive political preferences in certain directions.
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Patients with more symptoms during initial infection – particularly breathlessness, chest pain or abnormal heart sounds – appear more likely to experience lasting illness.
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Just because face coverings aren’t mandatory doesn’t mean they’re not protective – so here’s how to ask someone to wear one.
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When the media pits academics against each other in an attempt to represent “both sides of the argument”, no one wins.
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Simultaneously high levels of virus and vaccination will give further evidence of just how protective COVID-19 vaccines are.
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Most people being hospitalised with COVID-19 in the UK have had both vaccine doses, but this is to be expected as vaccination rates rise.
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A French study found a four to sixfold reduction in neutralisation against the delta variant compared with the alpha (Kent) variant.
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Comparing COVID-19 vaccines with others that are less effective makes people see them more favourably.
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Experts in viral immunology, ethics and computational biology share their thoughts on England sloughing off the last of the COVID restrictions.
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The freedom to do as you please impinges on the freedom of others to protect themselves from COVID-19.
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A philosopher of public health ponders whether taking your mask off on July 19 is like punching someone in the face or like riding a bike.
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Some deaths among the vaccinated are to be expected given how high the threat of COVID-19 is to older people.
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How the public thinks and feels about restrictions is far more complicated and conflicted than is typically reported.
Looking to the future: Charley and her baby daughter.
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First-hand family accounts and photographs trace the difficulties and traumas of giving birth and looking after a baby during a pandemic.
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The latest UK data shows that nearly two-thirds of people who died of COVID between February 1 and June 21 had been vaccinated.