While some world leaders and foreign policy experts expected IS to increase its attacks during COVID-19’s early days, travel bans and curfews helped slow violence.
Antibiotics are for bacterial infections – they shouldn’t be prescribed to treat viruses.
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A new book examining New Zealand’s extreme and alt-right movements tackles an important issue. But it could have defined its terms better and provided more evidence for its claims.
A team from the University of Tours and INRAE is working on the development of an innovative nasal vaccine against Covid, in spray form.
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Vaccination is often combined with an injection. It can also take the form of a nasal spray: an approach that is still rare, but which could be effective against Covid. Here’s why.
Travel restrictions can disrupt the best-laid plans.
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An international education expert offers five tips for students planning to study overseas in a post-pandemic world.
Relentless coughing after a viral infection can be frustrating and worrisome, but in most cases, coughs resolve over time.
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Some coughs can last for weeks or even months following an upper respiratory infection. The good news – albeit not very satisfying – is that most eventually go away on their own.
Nurses of the University College Hospital protest in London on Feb. 6, 2023. The walkout is part of a wave of health worker strikes and demonstrations in recent months.
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U.K. health worker protests echo issues in Canada. They are also a harbinger of future labour disputes and systemic collapse if austerity, underinvestment and neglect of health workers continue.
Some parents decided to continue home-schooling their kids even after public schools resumed in-person classes.
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Federal, state and local efforts to help students recover learning they missed or lost during the pandemic are underway. But those projects don’t include the youngest students.
Scientists are trying to find out whether there’s a genetic reason certain people have managed to avoid COVID for three years.
Stereotypes about the elderly having more than their fair share can be heightened during times of crisis when resources are seen to be scarce.
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From February 20, adults who haven’t had a COVID infection or COVID vaccine dose in the past six months are eligible for a booster, irrespective of how many previous doses they’ve had. So why get one?
As it became clear that the solution to the COVID pandemic would come from medical research, many people volunteered for human challenge trials.
COVID-19 emergency status prompted coordinated vaccination efforts by health care providers, paramedics, volunteers and others.
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President Joe Biden’s intention to end the national COVID-19 emergency will have long-lasting ripple effects on federal programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Indigenous patients who live in rural areas often have limited access to medical care.
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Britain is now desperately short of workers in some sectors. Yet our interviews with 100 women aged 50 and over show how hard it is for them to find secure employment
We’re moving towards the ‘disease control’ phase of our response to COVID, which means learning to live with the virus. But significant challenges remain as authorities battle COVID fatigue.
Prof George Magoha, then Kenya’s cabinet secretary for Education, with school pupils and parents in Nairobi, in September 2019.
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand