Coronavirus: Hunting down COVID-19
Kari Stefansson is the CEO of the Icelandic company deCODE genetics in Reykjavík, which has studied the spread of COVID-19 in Iceland with Iceland’s Directorate of Health and the National…
COVID-19: Preparing for the Next Pandemic
…response to COVID-19, creating the world’s largest portfolio of COVID-19 vaccines and aspiring to make two billion doses accessible to the 190+ economies participating in COVAX. But COVAX has faced…
COVID-19: Towards a Clean Air Revolution
…insights into the mechanism of how COVID-19 spread. We now know mask wearing is among a number of public health measures that can cut the incidence of COVID-19, by around…
Coronavirus: should we infect young people with COVID-19?
…and 30, with no previous history or symptoms of COVID-19, no underlying health conditions, and no known adverse risk factors for COVID-19, such as heart disease, diabetes or obesity. ‘Volunteers…
COVID-19: Beyond Omicron to the Next Pandemic
…if the vaccine capacity that we will build up, both in terms of manufacturing and other things, gets lost post COVID. Thanks to the new vaccine platforms developed for COVID…
COVID-19: Pandemic Art with Grayson Perry
The Grayson Perry artwork Alan Measles – God in the time of Covid-19 – will go on display today in Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries, the largest of their kind in…
COVID-19: How the virus spreads among vaccinated people
…into COVID-19 Transmission (INSTINCT) study of newly diagnosed cases and their contacts in their homes. In addition, there was ATACCC (Assessment of Transmission And Contagiousness of Covid19 Contacts) and ATACCC…
COVID-19: Rise of the Delta variant
COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe disease and death. But they are not 100% effective, and some fully vaccinated people will become infected, experience illness and pass on…
COVID-19: Pandemic Art with Angela Palmer and David Goodsell
…protein myoglobin (though some, unkindly, refer to it as the ‘dog poo’ model). But COVID-19 is exceptional. As Geoff Belknap, Head Curator at the National Science and Media Museum, and…
COVID 19- PANDEMIC ART: Artwork by Roxana Halls joins Collection
…worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic.’ Post-mortem and mortuary services are rarely talked about publicly. The few news reports centred on temporary COVID-19 mortuary facilities being set up with a…
COVID-19 Pandemic Art: How do artists visualise COVID-19?
…in a pandemic. For more on the Science Museum’s art and COVID-19 collections: – COVID-19: Pandemic Art with Angela Palmer and David Goodsell – COVID-19: Pandemic Art with Grayson Perry…
Coronavirus: Why minority ethnic groups suffer more
…Wales with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 and, for a given age, men and women from all ethnic groups (except Chinese women) were at greater risk of dying from COVID-19 than…