530,000 of the new doses to go to 20-to-39-year-olds living in the 12 hotspot LGAs as NSW struggles to contain outbreakFollow our Covid live blog for the latest updatesRestrictions: NSW; Vic; Qld; borders. Hotspots: NSW; Vic; QldIs lightning-fast Delta…
New Covid variants ‘will set us back a year’, experts warn UK government
Vaccine-beating variant is ‘realistic possibility’, say scientists, amid calls for contingency plans to be revealedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMinisters are being pressed to reveal what contingency plans are in place to …
‘No concept of how awful it was’: the forgotten world of pre-vaccine childhood in Australia
Until relatively recently, lethal infectious diseases stalked the lives of Australian children – including my father, Tom Keneally. Vaccines have saved millions It’s 1940, and a five-year-old boy lies in an oxygen tent. He struggles for breath and hall…
Will we reach herd immunity for the new coronavirus? | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters
It appears unlikely, but we should try to get as close as possibleThe Office for National Statistics Covid infection survey estimates that, either through vaccination or infection, an extraordinary 94% of adults now have antibodies to Sars-CoV-2.So why…
NSW Covid update: entire state in lockdown as premier warns ‘this is literally a war’
Australian Medical Association says NSW health system ‘can no longer manage’ after record Delta case numbersWhen Covid came to the anti-vax capital of AustraliaThe missing 10 days: did NSW squander the chance to head off its Delta nightmare?Hotspots: N…
When Covid came to the anti-vax capital of Australia
A noisy minority in NSW’s northern rivers are pushing back against Covid-19 restrictionsBenny Zable has lived in Nimbin on and off since 1973, when he arrived in town for the Aquarius festival – the event that seeded counterculture and escapist lifesty…
When it comes to breakthrough cases, are we ignoring long Covid once again? | Hannah Davis
We are told not to worry about breakthrough cases because they are ‘mild’ – but long Covid is anything but mildOn 1 May, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped tracking breakthrough infections that did not lead to hospitalization or …
Fears as more children falling ill in latest US Covid surge and school approaches
National Institutes of Health director says 1,450 kids in hospital Teachers union shifts, calls for vaccine mandates for teachers Amid increased fears that children are now both victims and vectors of the latest Covid-19 variant surge, National Institu…
Britain’s Covid experts Neil Ferguson Sage are under attack, but they are just doing their jobs
Those who attack Neil Ferguson and Sage’s pandemic predictions only expose their ignorance about science• Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverageIt feels like open season on Professor Neil Ferguson right now. Sections of the medi…
Prof Francois Balloux: ‘The pandemic has created a market for gloom and doom’
The UCL scientist and ‘militant corona centrist’ on the risk of new variants, psychosomatic long Covid and when he expects the crisis to endCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageProf Francois Balloux is director of the University …