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COVID 19- PANDEMIC ART: Artwork by Roxana Halls joins Collection

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By Selina Hurley

…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?

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/covid-19-pandemic-art-how-do-artists-visualise-covid-19/
By Anna Ferrari

…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: How dead virus can save lives

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-how-dead-virus-can-save-lives/
By Roger Highfield

…and play’ of the COVID-19 into our Japanese encephalitis manufacturing and development to make our COVID-19 vaccine, which we call VLA 2001. Our COVID-19 vaccine consists of inactivated whole virus…

Coronavirus: The Global COVID-19 Observatory

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-the-global-covid-19-observatory/
By Roger Highfield

…effectiveness of vaccines. The UK is leading the world in tracking the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium having already sequenced around 180,000 viral…

Coronavirus: The spike

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-the-spike/
By Roger Highfield

…it docks with a human cell. Ke, Z., Briggs, J. et al. Nature (2020). CAN COVID-19 DRUGS TARGET THE SPIKE? Understanding the spike can help develop drugs which could work…

Coronavirus: Virtual Pandemics

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-virtual-pandemics/
By Roger Highfield

…place. There are also a lot of people walking around with COVID-19 who don’t know it. HOW DO WE TEST THESE MODELS? Imperial’s CovidSim model has now been studied by…

Planet primed for animal infections to spillover into humans

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/planet-primed-for-animal-infections-to-spillover-into-humans/
By Roger Highfield

Viruses that circulate in animals have caused many serious diseases in humans – that was the story of HIV, of SARS, of MERS, of Ebola and now of COVID-19. The…

Revealing the first coronavirus

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/revealing-the-first-coronavirus/
By Katie Dabin

COVID-19’s impact on everyday life. Collecting COVID-19 ethically, broadly and from a distance, is underway right now for the Science Museum Group Collection. Watch this space for further stories connected…

The loneliness of the pandemic student

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-loneliness-of-the-pandemic-student/
By Natasha McEnroe

…is one of a small selection of objects that each tell a powerful story of the loneliness experienced by young people during COVID-19 and is accompanied by a unique archive…

A Shot Felt Around the World: Vaccines, Diplomacy, and the Power of Science

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/a-shot-felt-around-the-world-vaccines-diplomacy-and-the-power-of-science/
By Roger Highfield

Earlier this month Kolkata — the ‘City of Joy’ — opened Vaccines Injecting Hope: The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine, the final leg of a touring exhibition that marked a…

Coronavirus: How to vaccinate a nation

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-how-to-vaccinate-a-nation/
By Roger Highfield

…dose of COVID-19 vaccine to around 23 million people, of which 19 million were in England. On Thursday 11 March, the Science Museum in London joined the vast nationwide network…

COVID vaccine to go on display

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/covid-vaccine-to-go-on-display/
By Natasha McEnroe

…from Margaret’s historic immunisation will now join the Science Museum Group Collection, a highlight of our significant COVID-19 Collecting project. https://twitter.com/nhsuhcw/status/1336234728563863553 It has been acquired for the national collection alongside…