We may be witnessing the signs of COVID developing into an endemic disease in the UK.
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Recent developments have shown that Nigeria requires improved surveillance to keep other diseases like Mpox at bay while battling COVID-19.
My new research shows Australia has spent more subsidising fossil fuel research indirectly via research and development tax credits than directly via grants.
Vaccinating a population requires a proactive approach to health promotion and community preparedness.
The sketchy history of international efforts to control bioweapons suggests that nations will resist cooperative monitoring of gene hacking for medical research.
How the public thinks and feels about restrictions is far more complicated and conflicted than is typically reported.
The British government has opted to press on with reopening and not wait for the number of fully vaccinated people to rise, while Japan introduces new restrictions ahead of the Olympics.
Comparisons with flu are unhelpful – these diseases need to be treated differently.
The Royal Navy is central to the government’s vision of ‘Global Britain’.
The CPTPP probably won’t invigorate post-Brexit Britain economically, and it could even be dangerous, geopolitically speaking.
Complex questions over environmental protection and resource extraction require the signatories to give the future of the treaty much more serious attention.
The G-7 nations, which include the US and UK, form the foundation of the modern global economy.
It has consequences for everything from voting rights at the IMF to international borrowing costs.
Despite calls to use them, traditional cost-benefit calculations haven’t featured in the UK’s lockdown decisions.
Some countries made abortion access easier during the pandemic. Others used it as an excuse for a crackdown.
The inefficient vaccine allocation rules currently in place must be replaced by new cooperative institutional structures and more concrete steps by the Group of Twenty (G20) countries.
Chinese bitcoin mining could consume as much energy as the whole of the UK by 2024.
Ireland is looking at imposing a living wage on all employers.
The infrastructure and levels of deprivation in poorer countries have prevented them from benefiting from containment measures as much as richer nations.
Surge vaccination is being used to combat the B16172 variant, while the government prepares for a vaccine booster programme.
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