Peter Powell/EPA
The UK was late at recognising smell loss as a COVID symptom.
Some super smellers even associate unpleasant memories or feelings of annoyance with certain smells.
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Hyperosmia is relatively rare, but there are many reasons a person might develop this condition – even temporarily.
A victim of the Aids pandemic is buried in Cape Town in 2004.
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The British press ignored the millions of deaths from HIV/Aids in Africa for far too long.
Some have become closer to neighbours, some have let friendships drift.
EPA/Christophe Petit Tesson
Strong ties have been reinforced while other relationships have fallen by the wayside.
Michael Pack at his confirmation hearing in Washington, September 2019.
VOA
New research shows that journalists tend to only resist government interference when they fear it will seriously damage their career prospects’.
Friends no longer: US president Donald Trump with his then national security adviser John Bolton in 2018.
EPA-EFE/Justin Lane
The former national security adviser seems likely to be sued and could face criminal liability.
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PODCAST: Between a third and half of Europe’s population died from the Black Death. The first episode of a new podcast series from The Anthill on how the world recovered from past shocks.
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Was the government correct to think that adherence would fall over time? Perhaps.
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May 19, 2020
Pep Canadell , CSIRO ; Corinne Le Quéré , University of East Anglia ; Felix Creutzig , Mercator Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change ; Glen Peters , Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo ; Matthew William Jones , University of East Anglia ; Pierre Friedlingstein , University of Exeter ; Rob Jackson , Stanford University , and Yuli Shan , University of Groningen
New research reveals which sectors of the global economy fuelled the emissions decline during COVID-19. We have a narrow window of time to make the change permanent.
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
May 19, 2020
Pep Canadell , CSIRO ; Corinne Le Quéré , University of East Anglia ; Felix Creutzig , Mercator Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change ; Glen Peters , Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo ; Matthew William Jones , University of East Anglia ; Pierre Friedlingstein , University of Exeter ; Rob Jackson , Stanford University , and Yuli Shan , University of Groningen
Una nueva investigación analiza los sectores económicos responsables de la caída global de emisiones debida a la COVID-19. Tenemos una pequeño margen de tiempo para hacer el cambio permanente.
Le 11 mai 2020, à Saint-Malo, marquage d’une piste cyclable.
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May 19, 2020
Pep Canadell , CSIRO ; Corinne Le Quéré , University of East Anglia ; Felix Creutzig , Mercator Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change ; Glen Peters , Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo ; Matthew William Jones , University of East Anglia ; Pierre Friedlingstein , University of Exeter ; Rob Jackson , Stanford University , and Yuli Shan , University of Groningen
De tout récents travaux du Global Carbon Project montrent dans le détail les effets de la pandémie et du confinement sur l’économie mondiale.
Cholera would often turn its victims’ skin a bluish grey.
Wellcome Collection
There is a sad precedent of pandemic disease threatening the residents of care institutions – and of authorities not heeding the dangers.
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Tiny parts of our genome once thought useless are being turned into ways to diagnose and treat disease.
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There is abundant evidence that a sudden loss of smell is related to COVID-19.
Mona monkeys are among the many species often hunted for food.
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Illegal wild animal meat is found in cities right across the world and poses a very real threat of infecting people.
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As governments race to revive economic growth, expect a bonfire of green tape.
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There is spare testing capacity. Why isn’t it being used?
Plague sufferers being disinfected in Karachi, 1897.
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Racism against fellow Indians and classism against the poor characterised India’s early response to coronavirus, that is reminiscent of British imperial public health policies.
Stay at home measures were introduced in Japan in mid April.
Franck Robichon/EPA
An erratic response to coronavirus shows how Japan’s domestic policy is out-of-sync with its desired global image.
Health workers walk from house to house during vaccination campaign against polio in Kano, northwest Nigeria in 2017.
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Interventions seen to originate in the West frequently spark suspicion in northern Nigeria.