New research finds the COVID pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental health and financial circumstances of adults with long-term mental health problems.
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Certain immune cells acquired from a coronavirus that causes the common cold appear to react to COVID – but more so in children that adults.
New reports suggest the pandemic’s origins may be linked to raccoon dogs sold at Wuhan’s Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market. A virologist explains.
Air pollution can increase COVID risk by weakening our immune defences and exacerbating underlying health conditions.
There are a range of reasons people with long COVID may have poorer mental health.
It’s likely a combination of the incidence of viral outbreaks increasing, and the fact we’re getting better at detecting them.
The WHO first described COVID as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Where are we at, three years later?
A recent study found 59% of people with long COVID had damage to at least one organ a year after their initial symptoms.
Previous infection was highly protective against reinfection with alpha, beta and delta variants, but less so against omicron BA.1.
Antibiotics are a cornerstone of modern medicine, but resistance is a big challenge – and it’s possibly being exacerbated by the COVID pandemic.
Targeting vaccine campaigns only at vulnerable groups in future will, paradoxically, leave them at greater risk.
Scientists are trying to find out whether there’s a genetic reason certain people have managed to avoid COVID for three years.
As it became clear that the solution to the COVID pandemic would come from medical research, many people volunteered for human challenge trials.
From low histamine to anti-inflammatory diets, people on social media have been touting a variety of eating patterns to help manage long COVID.
A new review study has sought to understand the impact of the COVID pandemic on children’s school attainment.
There have been concerns that lunar new year may cause the current wave of COVID infections in China to spread much further and faster. But the worst has likely passed.
Clinically vulnerable people tended not to respond as well after the first and second shots, but their immunity rises to greater levels with a booster.
Nearly all the wastewater samples from aircraft arriving in the UK showed evidence of COVID-infected passengers on board.
The repeated lesson from other countries is that the loss of immunity and the appearance of new variants make herd immunity a futile goal when it comes to COVID.
A couple of theories are popular for explaining why we’re currently seeing very high levels of respiratory viruses, but they’re not based in science.
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Reader in Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Professor in Biomedical Sciences, University of Manchester
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Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
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Associate Professor in Viral Immunology, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Research Fellow in Virology, University of Leeds
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Principal Lecturer, Microbiology and Biomedical Science Practice, Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science, University of Brighton
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Clinical Research Fellow in Viral Immunology and Veterinary Surgeon, University of Cambridge
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor and Director of Evidence-Based Healthcare DPhil Programme, University of Oxford
