A third dose of the vaccine provides significant protection, but that should not mean those who are unvaccinated go withoutDavid O’Connor is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of WisconsinIn the summer, Israel began offeri…
Should scientists run the country?
Covid has put academics like Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance at the heart of policymaking, but electing better politicians could be the answerHow many lives would have been saved in the pandemic if the UK government had truly “followed the science”? …
How the US vaccine effort derailed and why we shouldn’t be surprised
Low vaccine rates may be the predictable outcome subject to entrenched social forces that have diminished American health and life expectancy since the 1980s, health researchers sayDr Claudia Fegan’s patient was a congenial, articulate and unvaccinated…
Antibodies in breast milk remain for 10 months after Covid infection – study
Exclusive: Researchers believe such antibodies could be used to treat people with severe coronavirusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBreastfeeding women who have been infected with Covid-19 continue to secrete virus-neutralis…
Return of the common cold: infections surge in UK as autumn arrives
After 18 months of social distancing, scientists believe people’s immune defences have weakenedThe return of schools and the arrival of autumn means common colds and other respiratory infections are firmly on the rise, spreading coughs and sneezes, mor…
Refusing your booster vaccine won’t help poorer countries | Letters
Declining a jab won’t promote the international availability of vaccines, say Stephen Mullin and Marilyn Howard, suggesting alternatives ways to help. Plus Tina Foster has good reason for having hersIn response to Christopher Cheetham’s letter (21 Sept…
Big pharma fuelling human rights crisis over Covid vaccine inequity – Amnesty
Six companies warned not to put profit before lives as report shows less than 1% of almost 6bn doses have gone to low-income countriesAmnesty International has accused six pharmaceutical companies that have developed Covid-19 vaccines of fuelling a glo…
Brazil’s health minister tests positive for Covid after meeting maskless Johnson
Marcelo Queiroga sat close to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss at New York meetingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Brazilian health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, has tested positive for Covid and gone into isolation, 24 hours af…
I declined my Covid booster jab. Others should too | Letter
People in poorer countries need a first jab much more than we need a third. By turning it down, we can all make a point, says Christopher CheethamAs your editorial on sharing vaccines with poorer countries points out (19 September), we know that two do…
Kids 5-11 appear safely protected by small doses of COVID vaccine, Pfizer says
The company aims to submit data to the FDA by the end of this month.