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The paper was published Open Access (meaning free for all to read) and online first, indicating the authors want as many eyeballs on this research as possible so as to generate media interest. And it has done that, racking up over ten thousand social media impressions so far. But don’t …

“Covid is not going to go away,” Whitty said in a Royal Society of Medicine webinar on Thursday. “This is now a disease that for the rest of our careers is going to be around. So, it is clear that we are going to have to manage it, at some …

At some point in the future, when we look back at the unprecedented and seemingly interminable authoritarian restrictions many have been forced to live under over the last year, we should ask ourselves, “What were we thinking?” Because, as the tide of the coronavirus pandemic starts to recede unevenly around …

It’s a year to the day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson instructed the world’s fifth-biggest economy to shut down. He told British citizens to stay at home, and closed the UK. In the blink of an eye, London, where I am based, went from a global metropolis to a ghost …

Why am I not surprised that mental health charities are now warning that the experience of coming out of the lockdown “could trigger anxiety for many”? Because for decades and decades the mental health industry has worked overtime to convince us that just about anything in life can make us …

If carbon dioxide emissions don’t drop by the equivalent of a worldwide lockdown “roughly every two years” for the next decade, the earth will heat to apocalyptic levels, a team of researchers at the University of East Anglia warned in a Nature article published Wednesday. This apparently so excited a …

The WEF’s controversial message turned out to be quite short-lived, surviving less than a day on its feed under a barrage of outraged comments. The tweet was accompanied by a video, showing deserted streets and silent factories, that noted a record drop in carbon emissions. It also linked to an …

Professor Sir Ian Boyd, who teaches at the University of St Andrews’ School of Biology, warned this week against the frequent lifting of lockdowns because “it simply fuels a new wave of disease” that can cause the virus to replicate more and mutate into new strains. “There are a lot …

Whenever Home Secretary Priti Patel is wheeled out to lead the daily government briefing we know we have done something wrong and something rotten is about to be rolled out. So from this week, thanks to our collective bad behaviour, £800 fines will be issued to those attending house parties …

The lockdown resistance is rising! Nearly a year after the Italian government signalled the arrival of killer Covid-19 on European shores by suspending flights from China and declaring a national emergency when two cases of the virus were confirmed in Rome, the nation’s bars, cafes and restaurants are uniting with …