Tag: Pandemic

Actually, Public Health Did a Remarkably Good Job With the Pandemic

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When caring for two toddlers during the pandemic felt impossible, I took solace in knowing that raising children used to be considerably more difficult. During the early 20th century, infectious organisms in tainted food or fetid water exacted a frightening toll on children; in some places, up to 30 percent died before their first birthday. In those days, there was often little more to offer children suffering from dehydration and diarrhea than milk teeming with harmful bacteria or so-called

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Prepare for another pandemic, new WHO guru Sir Jeremy Farrar tells Covid Inquiry

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Another pandemic is ‘inevitable’ and Britain is ‘woefully unprepared’ for it, a world-renowned scientist claimed today.

Sir Jeremy Farrar, an influential member of SAGE — No10’s advisory panel, told the Covid Inquiry we now live in a ‘pandemic age’.

He added that the world would see ‘more frequent and more complex pandemics’. 

Sir Jeremy, who now works for the World Health Organization (WHO), hit out at the Government’s ‘complacency’ in preparing for Covid. 

Giving his evidence remotely, he told the

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Lockdowns were never part of UK’s pandemic plan, Department of Health secretary tells Covid Inquiry

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Lockdowns never formed part of Britain’s pandemic preparedness plans, a senior official claimed today.

Sir Chris Wormald, permanent secretary at the Department of Health, told the Covid Inquiry that the Government’s widely-criticised strategy was heavily based on a flu outbreak.

But this did not contain any plan for widespread contact tracing — a cornerstone of the country’s Covid response.

Sir Chris also told the probe that economically-crippling lockdowns ‘were not what we had planned for’. He also denied that there

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What the Country Refused to Learn From the Pandemic

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Dr. Fauci Looks Back on the Pandemic and What Went Wrong

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Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’

In his most extensive interview yet, Anthony Fauci wrestles with the hard lessons of the pandemic — and the decisions that will define his legacy.

Philip Montgomery for The New York Times

It was, perhaps, an impossible job. Make one man the face of public health amid an unprecedented pandemic, in a country as fractious as the United States, and there were bound to be disappointments and frustrations, and they were bound

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Exklusiv: Ein Unterausschuss des Repräsentantenhauses veröffentlicht Schlüsseldokumente zum Pandemic Origin Paper

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The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic

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For three years now, the debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has ping-ponged between two big ideas: that SARS-CoV-2 spilled into human populations directly from a wild-animal source, and that the pathogen leaked from a lab. Through a swirl of data obfuscation by Chinese authorities and politicalization within the United States, and rampant speculation from all corners of the world, many scientists have stood by the notion that this outbreak—like most others—had purely natural roots. But that hypothesis

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The next stage of COVID is starting now

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To be a newborn in the year 2023—and, almost certainly, every year that follows—means emerging into a world where the coronavirus is ubiquitous. Babies might not meet the virus in the first week or month of life, but soon enough, SARS-CoV-2 will find them. “For anyone born into this world, it’s not going to take a lot of time for them to become infected,” maybe a year, maybe two, says Katia Koelle, a virologist and infectious-disease modeler at Emory University.

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Chris Whitty ‘warned against enforcing hated sex ban during Covid pandemic’

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Sir Chris Whitty advised ministers not to enforce the sex ban during the pandemic, leaked WhatsApp messages revealed today.

Under the original Covid lockdown imposed on March 23 2020, Boris Johnson told Brits to stay at home and avoid contact with people living in other households. 

The rules, in reality, amounted to a sex ban for all couples living separately because they were not allowed to meet up indoors. 

Sir Chris, England’s chief medical officer, was asked to clarify the

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What do experts on the Government’s SAGE panel hink the next pandemic will be?

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What will be the next pandemic, and what, if anything, can be done to stop it?

This is the question MailOnline put to experts who sat on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) panel during the Covid crisis.

Their answers come as concerns around the globe continue to grow on if bird flu could spill over to people and cause a new pandemic.

Earlier this week, China reported two human cases of bird flu in a man and woman

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