Trust that the UK government does ‘the right thing’ declined during the second year of the pandemic NEIL HALL/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock 24 February
Previous updatesīritain’s health secretary Sajid Javid, prime minister Boris Johnson and chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak The author, Adam Kucharski, is an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and in the book he examines how diseases spread and why they stop. The Rules of Contagionis about the new science of contagion and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour. Stopping the Next Pandemic: How Covid-19 Can Help Us Save Humanityby Debora Mackenzie is about how the pandemic happened and why it will happen again if we don’t do things differently in future.
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Long covid: Do I have it, how long will it last and can we treat it? Where did coronavirus come from? And other covid-19 questions answeredĬovid-19 vaccines: Everything you need to know about the leading shots Living with long covid: One person’s experience of DIY treatments and participating in clinical trials. Treatments could be less than a year away. Understanding long covid: We’re closing in on the causes of long covid. Latest coronavirus articles from New Scientist The crowd shouted “traitor” as she was leaving a school in Christchurch.Īnti-vaccine and anti-vaccine mandate protesters have been occupying the country’s parliament grounds for over two weeks. This means most people in the US will no longer be in areas where it is advised to wear a mask indoors.Īnti-vaccine mandate protesters yesterday chased a van in which New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s was travelling. The CDC has been recommending the use of indoor masks in public spaces like gyms and cinemas for the majority of the US population.īut the Associated Press have reported that today, the CDC will change its guidelines so that they are based on the number of covid-19 hospitalisations in local areas, rather than local infection rates. Indoor mask guidance will be loosened in the US today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to reports. The study was published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.