Research shows that lockdowns helped control cases in general – but that not all control measures had the same effect.
An unexpected legacy of COVID could be a new system for monitoring public health.
Children’s education, the population’s mental health and much more bear the scars of the pandemic.
Hybrid viruses that are part delta and part omicron have been found in Europe and North America.
The Russian invasion is creating conditions in which it’s easy for the virus to spread.
With COVID isolation scrapped in England, it’s unclear what’s next for the NHS’s much-discussed app.
Framing vaccines as an infringement of liberty is a powerful tactic, but obscures health and political factors that may actually drive resistance.
In the two years since COVID was declared a pandemic, vaccines and treatments have been rapidly developed – yet millions worldwide have died.
We asked over 1,000 people whether the lifting of restrictions in England signals the end of the pandemic – the majority thought it didn’t.
Only one in three of the children in our research project did their schoolwork on a laptop or computer.
COVID has disrupted how we work, socialise and shop, but there are some signs we’re returning to doing things like we used to.
The drug has been authorised for the use in the UK and elsewhere, but some are calling for further testing.
Genetic research has linked a number of blood proteins to severe COVID – including the enzyme that determines your blood type.
The fear that SARS-CoV-2 will evolve in animals and then spread back to us in a more virulent form is unfounded.
The coronavirus, vaccines and pandemic stress have all been linked to disruptions to people’s menstrual cycles.
A new politics of remembrance emerged during the COVID pandemic.
Passive monitoring of the virus through wastewater or more targeted and evenly spread testing would be better than our current tactics.
New research offers insights into the brain after COVID-19 that may have implications for our understanding of long COVID-19 and how the disease affects our senses of taste and smell.
Under a quarter of 12- to 15-year-olds are double vaccinated, while vaccines for younger children are still yet to be rolled out.
X-ray scans are taken in hospitals worldwide – and an AI program has been taught to scan them for coronavirus.
