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Monday briefing: The new variant that ’s a reminder the pandemic never fully ended
In today ’s newsletter: The ‘Eris’ strain of Covid is a reminder that the virus has never fully gone away – but what will it mean for Britain?•Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. Covid has become a polarising topic that many people just want to forget about. Earlier this year, the World Health Organization officially declared the pandemic over. Cases, hospitalisations and deaths are at their lowest levels, though infections have undoubtedly become more difficult to track as monitoring systems are dismantled. But even so, experts have made it clear that Covid will be with us for many ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nimo Omer Tags: Coronavirus Science World news UK news Health World Health Organization Source Type: news
Can a WHO pandemic treaty help poorer nations in future outbreaks?
Global accord aims to avoid the damage caused during Covid-19 and ensure vaccines and medical equipment are distributed equally to allCovid-19 caught the world unprepared; the scramble it prompted for treatments, tests, protective equipment and vaccines favoured the world ’s richest nations. To avoid the same thing happening in future pandemics, a group of world leaders has proposed a pandemic treaty, which is being negotiated in a series of international meetings hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO).The draft treaty is aimed at ensuring equity in distributing all that is needed to handle a future pandemic, inst...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 10, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Kaamil Ahmed Tags: Global health Global development Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science World news World Health Organization Society Pharmaceuticals industry Business Source Type: news
WHO declares ‘Eris’ Covid strain a variant of interest as UK cases rise
Health risk of EG.5, which is related to Omicron subvariant, judged to be low but may drive larger wave of infectionsA new strain of Covid-19 that is circulating in the UK has been designated as a variant of interest by the World Health Organization, although the public health risk has been judged as low.The variant, known as EG.5 or “Eris”, is related to an Omicron subvariant called XBB.1.9.2, and is growing in prevalence globally, with countries including the UK, China, and US among those affected.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 9, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Coronavirus World Health Organization Infectious diseases Science World news Microbiology UK news Source Type: news
WHO declares ‘Eris’ Covid strain a variant of interest as cases rise globally
Health risk of EG.5, which is related to Omicron subvariant, judged to be low but may drive larger wave of infectionsA new strain of Covid-19 has been designated as a variant of interest by the World Health Organization, although the public health risk has been judged as low.The variant, known as EG.5 or “Eris”, is related to an Omicron subvariant called XBB.1.9.2, and is growing in prevalence globally, with countries including the UK, China and US among those affected.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 9, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Coronavirus World Health Organization Infectious diseases Science World news Microbiology UK news Source Type: news
Simon Schama on the broken relationship between humans and nature: ‘The joke’s on us. Things are amiss’
More than ever, the relationship between our two worlds has been disrupted, says the historian. If we don ’t mend our ways, will we face even deadlier threats than Covid, Sars and Mpox?In March 2021, the 13th month of the Covid confinement, thepeepers, in their vast multitudes, sang out again. Down in the swampy wetlands below our house in Hudson Valley, New York, millions ofPseudacris crucifer ( “cross-bearing false locusts” but actually minute frogs) puffed up their air sacs and warbled for a mate. That’s spring for you. The peepers are so tiny – an inch or so long – that you’ll never see one, no matter how...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Simon Schama Tags: Epidemics Coronavirus Animals World Health Organization Simon Schama Culture Infectious diseases Science Illegal wildlife trade Environment Vaccines and immunisation Society Microbiology Source Type: news
US Covid emergency status ends as officials plan ‘new phase of managing’ virus
Vaccines and medication will remain available for free ‘while supplies last’ but most Americans will have to pay for testingThursday marked the end of Covid-19 ’s public health emergency status in the US, concluding more than three years of free access to testing, vaccines, virtual accommodations and treatment for the majority of Americans.The end of the emergency designation comes just weeks after the World Health Organization declared an end to the global health emergency. But the nation ’s leading health officials also wanted to be sure Americans don’t confuse this marker for the end of Covid-19 concerns.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Makaelah Walters Tags: Coronavirus US news Infectious diseases Science US politics Biden administration Source Type: news
Is Covid really over? WHO ’s announcement sounds more like surrender than victory
Although the acute phase of the pandemic may have passed, experts agree that the virus ’s effects will remain profoundThe global public emergency caused by Covid-19 may be officially over but the pandemic will still be with us for many years. Nor is it clear that governments have learned sufficiently from the outbreak to be ready to fight off new emerging microbes that could trigger worse calamities.These are the stark conclusions of scientists reacting tolast week ’s news that the World Health Organization (WHO) no longer considers Covid-19 – which has killed more than 7 million people over the past three years – ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie Observer science editor Tags: Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science Microbiology World news World Health Organization Epidemics Society Source Type: news
Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency, says WHO
Declaration a major step towards end of pandemic that has killed more than 6.9m peopleThe Covid-19 pandemic, which has sickened or killed almost 800 million people over three years, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the head of the World Health Organization has said.The WHO first gave Covid its highest level of alert on30 January 2020, and its panel has continued to apply the label at meetings held every three months.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Coronavirus World Health Organization World news Infectious diseases Society Medical research Long Covid Source Type: news
The Guardian view on the vaccine shortfall: tackling disruption and distrust | Editorial
Millions of children have missed routine immunisations due to the pandemic. But saving lives is about more than logisticsThe horror of the Covid-19 pandemic brought with it one small cause for optimism: the crisisaccelerated the development of new vaccine technologies, with the potential to protect against other diseases. Yet this leap forward was accompanied by a dramatic backsliding in the delivery of existing vaccines, with23 million children missing out on routine immunisations in 2020 and 25 million in 2021 – the largest sustained decline in three decades.The World Health Organization reports that more prevalent and...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 2, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Editorial Tags: Vaccines and immunisation Health Global health Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science World Health Organization Source Type: news
New data links Covid-19 ’s origins to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market
Analysis of gene sequences by international team finds Covid-positive samples rich in raccoon dog DNANewly released genetic data gathered from a live food market in Wuhan has linked Covid-19 with raccoon dogs, adding weight to the theory that infected animals sold at the site started the coronavirus pandemic, researchers involved in the work say.Swabs collected from stalls at the Huanan seafood market in the two months after it was shut down on 1 January 2020 were previously found to contain both Covid and human DNA. When the findings were published last year, Chinese researchers stated that the samples contained no animal...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Coronavirus China Wildlife Health Science Genetics Research Infectious diseases Biology World Health Organization Asia Pacific World news Source Type: news
‘There may still be surprises’: Jeremy Farrar warns of pandemic perils ahead
As the former Sage adviser leaves Wellcome to join WHO, he talks about exhausted health workers, the UK ’s sluggish response to Covid and the danger of conspiracy theoriesMasks are a rarity now on streets and trains. We don ’t leave empty seats in theatres or limit how many people browse in our shops. It seems like it’s all over – but Prof Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome, once a key member of the government’s scientific advisory body Sage and an enormously influential figure in global health, says the C ovid pandemic could still have unpleasant surprises in store.Farrar is not a doom-monger. But from wher...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Coronavirus World Health Organization Infectious diseases Bird flu Ebola Boris Johnson Philanthropy NHS Industrial action Medical research Science Source Type: news
‘A growing threat to human health’: we are ill-equipped for the dangers of fungal infections
About 2 million people die a year as a result of a core group of fungi, and the WHO is concerned we are unprepared for the futureThe year is 2003, and a species of Cordyceps fungus has made the leap from ants to humans, transforming its hosts into frenzied, bloodthirsty zombies that spread the infection to everyone they bite. The solution proposed by a leading mycologist in Jakarta, Indonesia, where the first cases were detected, is radical, but in her view, essential: bomb the entire city and everyone in it to stop the infection in its tracks.Last month, HBO ’s long-awaited post-apocalyptic series The Last of Us hit our...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 10, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Linda Geddes Tags: Fungi Biology Science Coronavirus Infectious diseases Medical research World Health Organization World news Society Source Type: news
WHO urges Covid data ‘transparency’ as China prepares to open borders
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says WHO officials stressed to Beijing the importance of sharing data ahead of easing of travel restrictions on 8 JanuaryThe World Health Organisation again urged China ’s health officials to regularly share specific, real-time information on the country’s Covid surge, as the UK joined other countries in bringing in travel restrictions, citing a lack of data as the reason.WHO Covid expertsmet Chinese officials on Friday and “again stressed the importance of transparency and regular sharing of data to formulate accurate risk assessments and to inform effective response”, said the WHO chief...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 31, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Guardian staff and agencies Tags: China Coronavirus Asia Pacific World news Travel Science Infectious diseases Source Type: news
The data is clear: long Covid is devastating people ’s lives and livelihoods | Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
The impact of long Covid needs urgent action – and there are five key elements to drive the effort forward, writes the WHO director general•Read the Guardian ’s new series, Living with long CovidCrushing fatigue. Brain fog making straightforward tasks almost impossible. Shortness of breath walking up the stairs.Just some of the many symptoms people withlong Covid (post-Covid-19 condition) have experienced according to patient groups, researchers and clinicians the World Health Organization (WHO) has worked with since cases of prolonged suffering from Covid-19 started to be recognised in mid-2020.Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghe...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 12, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Tags: Coronavirus Long Covid Society Infectious diseases World news Science Source Type: news
The threat of Covid isn ’t over – so why does Britain have a conspiracy of silence about it? | Philip Ball
Our government is pretending that the pandemic is ‘done’, ignoring both protective measures now and preparations for the futureRemember those days of looking at graphs and statistics of Covid infections and deaths and wondering if the end of the pandemic was in sight, or if it was safe to visit the parents, or if another tranche of restrictions was on the way? Thank goodness someone is still keeping track of those figures – namely the World Health Organization, whoselatest update brings the welcome news that global weekly Covid deaths have dropped by 9%. All the same, the overall picture is complicated: deaths are ri...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 15, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Philip Ball Tags: Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science World news UK news Source Type: news
