Category: The Pandemic

  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

Unvaccinated people are ten times more likely to contract Covid, and more likely to pass it on than vaccinated people

There is immense interest in understanding whether potentially protective SARS-CoV-2 antibodies are provided to the baby via breast milk. This is what we know so far

  But the immune cells that vaccination spurs do last a long time