Top news of the week: 07.03.2023.
FBI Director Says Covid Pandemic Likely Caused by Chinese Lab Leak
Christopher Wray provides the first public confirmation of the bureau’s classified assessment of a suspected laboratory incident.
Covid-19: Vaccination reduces severity and duration of long covid, study finds
Vaccination against covid-19 reduces both the severity and the duration of long covid, a study published in BMJ Medicine has found.1 The paper adds to the evidence that patients infected ...
Circulatory diseases killed more than COVID-19 in 2020
In 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, diseases of the circulatory system were the main cause of death in all EU countries, except in Denmark, Ireland, France and the Netherlands, where ...
Covid-19: Leaked messages reveal casual policy making—and love for Whitty
The 100 000 leaked WhatsApp messages send during Matt Hancock’s time as England’s health secretary give an insight into the UK government’s operations at the height of the covid pandemic, ...
How did the Covid-19 pandemic begin? We need to investigate all credible hypotheses
The news has reignited the overheated public debate over the two prevailing hypotheses for the origin of Covid-19, but the case remains far from closed
US public investment in development of mRNA covid-19 vaccines: retrospective cohort study
Objective To estimate US public investment in the development of mRNA covid-19 vaccines. Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting Publicly funded science from January 1985 to March ...
UWE study: Covid-19 shielding affected rheumatic patients
Pamela Richards, who suffers with arthritis, says shielding has been "a massive blow" to life.
Did Boris Johnson ‘follow the science’ on Covid? He couldn’t even do the maths
Leaked WhatsApps reveal his ignorance needing constant correction by advisers, says Kit Yates, director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath