This guidance replaces previous conditional recommendations for the use of these drugs and is based on emerging evidence that they’re not likely to work against omicron.
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Food insecurity is a social justice issue tied to social determinants of health. Historically marginalized people like 2SLGBTQ+ youth are at risk, and more likely to be food insecure during COVID-19.
Since immunity from COVID vaccination begins to wane over time, it’s important that everyone, irrespective of age, receives their boosters as soon as they are eligible to do so.
Four different authors – Sarah Moss, Roddy Doyle, Anne Tyler and Gary Shteyngart – tell four different stories of life in a time of COVID.
Though COVID is mild for most children, it can be serious for some. Where we have safe and effective vaccines, there’s no sense in not rolling them out.
The COVID alert level for the UK was recently downgraded. Here’s what that means.
Johnson’s leadership during the pandemic has been characterised by failures of governance and breaches of ethics.
Authorities have been warned about five virus families that could cause future pandemics. Here are snapshots of the diseases each can cause and why we should be worried.
Only a portion of excess deaths had COVID mentioned on the death certificate. But the pandemic could be affecting death rates indirectly.
Locals usually see tourists as a way to boost the economy. But at a certain point, resentment starts to build.
As we reflect on what life means to us in this post-pandemic shuffle, we need to also contemplate what a “good death” is.
A recent study suggests one in eight people who get COVID will go on to develop long COVID.
The spread of a virtual disease in the online game World of Warcraft appeared to have relevance to understanding real world epidemics like COVID.
Research by geographers in Canada, the United States and Hong Kong identifies lessons for universities and colleges from the 2020 move to online learning.
People who get COVID continue to face increased risks of developing some neurological and psychiatric conditions, like psychosis and dementia, for up to two years afterwards.
The impacts of COVID-19 must be incorporated into women, peace and security planning in order to improve the lives of women and girls in postwar countries like Nepal and Sri Lanka.
If surveillance focuses only on diseases that have already emerged, we’ll remain behind the curve. Better prediction of future pandemics will need to integrate animal, planetary and human health.
Searching symptoms online has become so common there is a name for the condition of health anxiety induced by self-diagnosis on the internet: Cyberchondria.
Is it time to accept the limits to COVID control and invest elsewhere in the health system?
Although Sweden was hit hard by the first wave, its total excess deaths during the first two years of the pandemic was among the lowest in Europe.
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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