If nothing is done to reduce university-based Covid-19 infections, each infected student is likely to infect one other person in their household during the winter holidays.
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Heavier duty fabrics filter more particles – and layering and moisture make a difference too.
Anti-complement drugs have shown promise in treating COVID in several small trials. Larger trials are now underway.
The recent vaccine trial results certainly look impressive, but here’s how to fully interrogate what they mean.
Whatever approach is taken, the vaccine roll-out has to be fair and efficient.
Good communication and factoring in human behaviours can prevent people from dismissing the risk of the coronavirus.
Governments can corner themselves by failing to recognise their own groupthink.
Personal stories work better than statistics when it comes to converting sceptics.
Why the virus just keeps spreading – and what to do about it.
Promising vaccines such as Pfizer’s will play a role in ending the pandemic – but widespread immunity isn’t yet on the horizon.
Developing countries face greater risks raising money to deal with the pandemic. Zambia is now on the verge of being the first ‘COVID default’ and other developing countries could follow suit.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine may be rolled out in mere weeks.
The government should look beyond traditional socioeconomic arguments for why some patients are at greater risk.
Shielding people based on their individual risk profile has been proposed by some experts.
Coronavirus made these two problems worse during the first wave. We need to be better prepared for the second.
In science, vaccine efficacy and effectiveness mean something different.
The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine needs to be stored at -80⁰C.
Interim analysis of trial data isn’t unusual – but leaves us with many things we still need to find out.
Denmark orders the cull of all farmed mink after a mutated strain of coronavirus was found in some animals.
Lauded as a success story during the first wave, the country is now struggling with an explosion of cases.
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