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By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal Liverpool, Carissa Wong and Alex Wilkins A sign advising customers that a pharmacy is out of stock of lateral flow antigen tests, Cheadle, England Nathan Stirk/Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 12pm on 23 … Read more
Medicines for long covid will probably be with us within a year, as the mechanisms behind the disease are finally starting to be understood Health 23 February 2022 By Michael Marshall Pete Reynolds LAUREN NICHOLS first fell ill on 10 March 2020. Her symptoms started with crushing fatigue, swiftly followed by headaches, brain fog … Read more
Residents learned what was possible. Some politicians fought to keep it that way Credit: James Olstein Advertisement During COVID’s first wave, the streets of New York and other major cities became eerily empty. Mournful sirens replaced the usual bustle and din. But urban dwellers also heard something new: an abundance of birdsong. During walks outside—the … Read more
Disaster researchers are used to seeing train wrecks coming. We study the worst moments in human history—their warning signs, failures, destruction, pain, corruption and injustice—so that we can lessen the hurt. But the scale of the pandemic, and the response to it, shook even the most practiced among us. In the beginning, I spent hours … Read more
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal Liverpool, Carissa Wong and Alex Wilkins Two people embrace on arrival at Sydney’s International Airport on 21 February 2022 in Sydney, Australia. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 12pm on 21 February … Read more
By Michael Marshall Melting permafrost in Russia’s Yamal peninsula (pictured) has exposed nomadic reindeer herders (below) to anthrax Elena Shchipkova/Alamy IN NOVEMBER 2019, the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine held a workshop to discuss an emerging disease threat. Not covid-19: they were a couple of months too early for that. Instead, they … Read more
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal Liverpool, Carissa Wong and Alex Wilkins A child receives the covid-19 vaccine KONRAD K/SIPA/Shutterstock Latest coronavirus news as of 12pm on 17 February Children aged between five and 11 in England will be able to … Read more
As SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has spread throughout the world, many observers have failed to take note of the millions of illnesses and deaths caused by HIV—another virus that has approached pandemic status during its history. Now an HIV variant that is more virulent and transmissible has been discovered in the Netherlands, where … Read more
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal Liverpool, Carissa Wong and Alex Wilkins A woman receives a covid-19 booster jab in London Britain, UK NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Latest coronavirus news as of 12pm on 16 February The chance of getting long covid are … Read more
In 1889, a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in Russia and then spread across the globe, triggering at least three waves of infection over the course of several years. Now, some scientists suspect that this illness, dubbed the “Russian flu,” actually may have been caused by a pandemic coronavirus similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, The New … Read more