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Making a Covid-19 vaccine for two billion people
The challenge of making two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses within the year.
How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
New research on how long our defences against the coronavirus last.
Rwanda’s game changing coronavirus test
African scientists have developed a reliable, quicker and cheaper mass testing method
Covid-19 and children
Why a minority become gravely ill is still a mystery
Record high temperatures – in the Arctic
Siberia has seen 38 degrees Celsius, 100 degrees Fahrenheit
Covid -19 hope for severe cases
A readily available drug prevents some deaths, and others may also be useful
Food security, locusts and Covid -19
Efforts to irradiate locust swarms and save harvests continue despite the pandemic
The medical complexity of Covid -19
Understanding viral damage to the brain and heart
Brazil’s Covid chaos
Numbers of cases and deaths may be much higher than official figures show
Loosening lockdown
Understanding which situations pose the highest risk for virus transmission is key.