The meningitis outbreak and Britain’s long Covid problem
After the pandemic, we are too quick to panic
ByVaccination
The return of measles reveals human beings at their most contradictory
Scare stories about vaccinations are more emotive than dry data.
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Whooping cough’s deadly epidemic cycle
When the baby stopped breathing and started turning purple, I saw the real effect of this persistent disease.
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The AstraZeneca vaccine saved millions of lives – it should not be demonised
As the AZ Covid jab is withdrawn, fear-mongering about its very rare side effects will only fuel vaccine scepticism.
By Child vaccination uptake is falling once again
The current wave of measles cases can be traced back to the cost-of-living crisis and cuts in NHS health visitor…
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The Policy Ask with Michael Anderson: “We could learn from Portugal on drug laws”
The CEO of MedAccess on decriminalising drug use, big pharma’s responsibility to developing countries, and working on a fishing boat.
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Professor Andrew Pollard: Our future depends on the life sciences
The co-inventor of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid jab on careers in clinical research, future pandemics and vaccine hesitancy.
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Andrew Bridgen isn’t the only conspiracy theorist when it comes to the NHS
When things go wrong, we are all primed to go looking for someone to blame.
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Andrew Bridgen is the sign of a new conspiracist conservatism
It’s vital for the persecution complex of a modern right that has lost the zeitgeist.
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Will we soon have vaccines for cancer?
BioNTech is attempting to deploy the vaccination technology it developed for Covid as a weapon against malignancy.
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We didn’t do enough to understand vaccine sceptics, says Oxford inventor
Professor Sarah Gilbert says scientists need to work together on tackling hesitancy before the next pandemic.
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How worried should we be about the new Covid wave?
The UK is not going to return to lockdown, but there are mitigations that a responsible government should be vigorously…
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Bill Gates on the pandemic: a misplaced faith in innovation
The tech billionaire believes business can shield us from future diseases – but the market is part of the problem.
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Vulnerable people are effectively being told “go to hell”
Boris Johnson is lifting Covid restrictions without any plan to protect people such as me with compromised immune systems.
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“It is embarrassing for the Prime Minister”: why the government really U-turned on NHS mandatory vaccines
“I’ve been bombarded with messages of people so worried that they were going to lose their livelihoods. It’s been horrific.”
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Should we vaccinate our kids?
Jabs have risks, but then so does Covid.
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Do vaccine sceptics deserve a voice?
Anti-vaxxers cannot be dismissed as simply stupid or malicious: it is not always easy to “follow the science”.
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How vaccines have dramatically reduced Covid-19 deaths in the UK
Despite record numbers of cases, fewer people are dying now than in the second wave.
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Why Emmanuel Macron’s war on the unvaccinated makes electoral sense
French voters are increasingly impatient with the unvaccinated – a factor which could help Macron at the polls.
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How many Australians have been vaccinated against Covid-19?
The country immersed in a legal battle with Novak Djokovic has a higher vaccination rate than most others.
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