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Coronavirus

  • Girls in a classroom

    Girls in England feel less safe at school than they did pre-Covid, survey finds

  • man wearing navy suit and red tie speaks into small microphone

    Mehmet Oz confirmed by US Senate to lead Medicare and Medicaid

    Former TV pitchman has close relationship with boss RFK Jr but regularly encourages Americans to get vaccinated
  • Robert F Kennedy Jr

    Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

    Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccines

  • US wine importers and bars nervously wait for tariff decision: ‘It’s a sad situation’

  • Caribbean leaders deny US claims that Cuban health workers are victims of ‘forced labor’

  • UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families

  • ‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn

  • Covid ‘benevolence bump’ endures as acts of kindness 10% higher than before 2020

  • Covid inquiry: ex-minister defends VIP contract lane despite ‘one or two crooks’

  • How Covid changed the way Britain thinks

  • How Covid-19 changed the way we die

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Explainers & analysis

  • BRITAIN-HEALTH-VIRUS-HOSPITAL-PPE<br>Clinical staff wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as they care for patients at the Intensive Care unit at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, on May 5, 2020. - NHS staff wear an enhanced level of PPE in higher risk areas such as critical care to minimise the spread of infection between staff and patients. Britain's death toll from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has topped 32,000, according to an updated official count released Tuesday, pushing the country past Italy to become the second-most impacted after the United States. (Photo by Neil HALL / POOL / AFP) (Photo by NEIL HALL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Covid, five years on: UK ‘still not ready to protect the population’

  • a child cries while receiving a vaccine as a person holds them

    Uncharted territory for the WHO if Trump withdraws US membership

    • A woman wrapped up in blankets in bed with a themometer and cold relief medicines.

      Flu: who is at risk in England and what precautions are recommended?

    • A masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

      Are we ready for another pandemic?

    • Commuters carry umbrellas while crossing London Bridge in the rain

      Do long-term sickness benefits cost UK a lot and can more people be helped into work?

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Opinion

  • people standing in a Star Trek-like starship bridge

    Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future

    Louis Anslow
    • Ranjana Srivastava

      Measles is back. Now is the time to bolster Australian public health

      Ranjana Srivastava
    • Hand Picking Up Surgical PPE Face Mask When Leaving Home During Covid-19 Pandemic Health Crisis<br>2BN8DGE Hand Picking Up Surgical PPE Face Mask When Leaving Home During Covid-19 Pandemic Health Crisis

      Five years on, the outbreak of Covid feels both distant and too horribly close

      Séamas O’Reilly
    • Frances Ryan

      Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it?

      Frances Ryan
    • Red hearts on the National Covid Memorial Wall, with a vase of red roses in front

      The Guardian view on Covid-19, five years on: lessons still to be learned

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In depth

  • A smiling man stands at a table with a chopping board covered in ingredients, with a harbour behind him

    The rise of the digital fishmonger: how Covid helped customers buy fresh from the boat

  • a person walking at a train station with no one around

    ‘A case study in groupthink’: were liberals wrong about the pandemic?

    • A smog cloud hanging over Barcelona

      Are rising lower respiratory infection hospital admissions linked to dirty air?

    • Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy/Guardian Design

      From the archive: Is society coming apart? – podcast

    • close up of a pair of gloved hands injecting a vaccine into an arm

      ‘The goal is to disassemble public health’: experts warn against US turn to vaccine skepticism

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Multimedia

  • A woman sits on the edge of her bed looking toward the window

    Inside the mystery of long Covid recovery – podcast

  • Darren Parkinson is one of about 2 million people living with long Covid in England and Scotland. The illness is having a detrimental impact on his life, stopping him from being the kind of active and involved parent he wants to be to his two children.&nbsp;The Guardian has spent a year with Darren and his family to document his journey as he tries to recover from long Covid and come to terms with his new reality
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    ‘The pandemic isn’t over’: my year of long Covid – video

    Darren Parkinson is one of about 2 million people living with long Covid in England and Scotland. The illness is having a detrimental impact on his life, stopping him from being the kind of active and involved parent he wants to be to his two children. The Guardian has spent a year with Darren and his family to document his journey as he tries to recover from long Covid and come to terms with his new reality
  • 3D rendering of Covid-19

    Everything you need to know about Covid this autumn – podcast

    Madeleine Finlay is joined by Ian Sample, the Guardian’s science editor and Science Weekly co-host, to answer the questions we are all asking about Covid this autumn, from what is going on with the new variant XEC to how to get a vaccine and what scientists think the government should be doing differently
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