‘Long Covid forced me to quit the job I loved’: Benefit cuts fears of thousands still too ill to work
The 55-year-old, of Birmingham, now fears the inevitable hit to her future pension after quitting. “I’m absolutely destroyed with [long Covid],” she said, describing periods where she is bedbound and ...
Masks off: The lessons we didn't learn from COVID
The pandemic accelerated economic disparity, revealing a disturbing acceptance of mass death. Did we learn nothing?
Five Years On, Ghosts of a Pandemic We Didn’t Imagine Still Haunt Us
Time’s passage may have granted the illusion of distance, but we are living in a world that has yet to put the effects of ...
Social Distance
On the five-year anniversary of Covid, a look at the ways we vowed our lives and relationships would change afterward — and ...
Frontline health care workers reflect on early days of COVID 5 years after WHO declared pandemic
Five years after the WHO declared the COVID global outbreak to be a pandemic, frontline health care workers reflect on what they remember of the early days of COVID.
Politicization of COVID puts public health in tough spot
Local public health officials are the front line for responding to any disease outbreak. Five years after the coronavirus pandemic began, many say that the entrenched politicization of COVID-19 has ...
COVID doctors look back on pandemic five years later: 'Lines wrapped around the building'
Doctors and nurses at the time were being pushed to their capacity as hospitals and urgent care facilities piled up, putting ...
How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse — and for better
Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump's pick to lead Medicare and Medicaid, gets his Senate hearing
Dr. Mehmet Oz is set to appear before the Senate Finance committee Friday for his confirmation hearing to be the ...