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Exclusive: Evidence to UK Covid inquiry describes missed chances to improve test-and-trace regime in early days of pandemic

Gaps in contact-tracing and confused public health advice meant many infectious people not told to isolate

The failure of government agencies to examine the potential impacts of Long Covid makes it impossible to make informed decisions on public health policy.

Redfern Legal Centre calls for compensation after withdrawal of 33,000 pandemic-era fines

New research suggests air pollution is linked to nearly 40 percent of stillbirths in 137 countries around the world.

Given the harms caused, lessons should be learned from China’s people, not its government.

In 2014 the United Nations set an ambitious goal: to end the AIDS pandemic by the year 2030.

Public health experts and social media researchers are concerned that the change could have serious consequences if it discourages vaccination and other efforts to combat the still-spreading virus.

Twenty-two attorneys general filed a petition on November 17, 2022, requesting the Biden administration to repeal the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule on November 5, 2021, requiring healthcare workers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The interim rule…

London’s public health chief warns cases of the virus are ‘rising rapidly’

Almost three years into the pandemic, myths and misinformation remain widespread. Here we, a virologist and a public health researcher, debunk some common misconceptions about COVID.