Category: The Pandemic

The WHO first described Covid as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Where are we at, three years later?

By Anil Madan

Family physicians are on the frontline of health care, and their observations and support can help us get through the upcoming winter season. Over the past month, clinics

Why you should be strength training – and how to do it

  Face masks are still an effective way to help stop the spread of the BA.5 subvariant

  Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 are behind an increasing wave of infections in the UK. So, what happens now?

Pfizer and Moderna have both recently reported results for their Covid-19 vaccines in the youngest children

Fatigue can drag for weeks, even when the infection is gone, and sleep doesn’t fix it. But there are simple steps you can take to ride it out

The new variant is a warning: unless we take urgent action to correct global vaccine inequities, we risk the emergence of further variants, some of which may evade

A virus evolution expert explains what researchers know and what they don’t

  Other Voices

Both drugs significantly reduce the chance of people vulnerable to Covid being hospitalised – but they stop the virus in different ways

By Arif R. Sarwari

Combining high technology with the human touch

We would better leave the medical and specialist community rather than politicians to guide the population