Top news of the week: 29.11.2022.
An art exhibit on the National Mall honors health care workers who died of COVID
Art curator Susannah Perlman, who lost her mother to COVID-19, created the Hero Art Project on the National Mall to eternalize the smiles of other health care workers lost to the pandemic.
China targets older people in Covid-19 vaccination drive
Plan to accelerate vaccine rates among people over 80 comes as police crack down on protests against country’s zero-Covid policy
Immensa lab errors may have led to 23 Covid-19 deaths
A report says 39,000 people may also have been given incorrect PCR results from a private lab.
Investing in robust surveillance of the effects of covid-19 and future emerging infections in pregnancy should be prioritised
As we write this, covid-19 cases have plateaued again in the UK and across Europe, after rising earlier in the autumn. But many studies specifically focusing on covid-19 in pregnancy have ...
Europe faces an enduring crisis of energy and geopolitics
This will weaken it and threaten its global position
The costs and consequences of Europe’s energy crisis are growing
Despite appearances, the worst is yet to come
Primary care in Spain: underfunded, understaffed, and neglected
The covid pandemic has exposed the state of primary care in Spain. Doctors say the country must finally face up to long running problems, including a lack of permanent employment for health ...
Preoccupied with the war, Russia skipped one wave of covid and ignored another
Russia has almost forgotten about covid-19—but the virus has not forgotten Russia. Polina Loseva reports The question of how Russia is doing in the ongoing pandemic is an opaque one. ...