There is no going back to a pre-pandemic normal – only forward to a new one.
People are less likely to isolate if they don’t legally have to – but some still will voluntarily.
Removing ways of tracking and preventing the spread of COVID will lead to more disruption and ill health.
Many changes to services have gone under the radar.
Vaccines are less effective at reducing the risk of viral mutation than they used to be – but they still make a difference.
Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt is concerned that the U-turn on vaccine mandates for NHS staff will make it harder to implement them in the future.
Having access to an mRNA vaccine will be critical to China’s ongoing COVID response.
Support services have seen requests for period products and menstrual health advice increase during the pandemic.
For many, the pandemic switched the focus away from financial gain.
Anti-vaccination Instagram posts deliberately depict mothers in a certain way to drive up rates of vaccine hesitancy.
Here’s what we know so far about why reinfections happen and what effects they have.
Sotrovimab and baricitinib target COVID at different stages of its development, and will give doctors greater flexibility in treating omicron patients.
Curfews are associated with a long history of racism and prejudice.
Understanding how we blame can help us work together.
We can’t say whether longer Omicron survivability on surfaces relates to a greater risk of infection.
Anchoring bias meant we found it hard to get rid of the first bit of information we heard.
Research from Japan has found that a certain type of gut bacteria appears to lower the rate of COVID deaths.
A freedom of information request is only useful if you know how to read the data.
A recent clinical trial shows that taking probiotics can lead to a quicker recovery from a coronavirus infection.
Control measures may be easing, but don’t expect the world to return to how it was in January 2020.
