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    Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’

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    US wine importers and bars nervously wait for tariff decision: ‘It’s a sad situation’

    Many importers halt shipments on chance White House makes good on threat of 200% markup on European goods
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    Caribbean leaders deny US claims that Cuban health workers are victims of ‘forced labor’

    As White House takes aim at medical missions, SVG says it gave US proof that workers aren’t human-trafficking victims
  • UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families

  • ‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn

  • Covid ‘benevolence bump’ endures as acts of kindness 10% higher than before 2020

  • Covid inquiry: ex-minister defends VIP contract lane despite ‘one or two crooks’

  • How Covid changed the way Britain thinks

  • How Covid-19 changed the way we die

  • ‘Wake-up call’: Measles cases doubled in Europe last year, say WHO and Unicef

  • Michael Gove ‘wanted to circumvent watchdog’ to push through Dyson bid, Covid inquiry told

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  • BRITAIN-HEALTH-VIRUS-HOSPITAL-PPE<br>Clinical staff wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as they care for patients at the Intensive Care unit at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, on May 5, 2020. - NHS staff wear an enhanced level of PPE in higher risk areas such as critical care to minimise the spread of infection between staff and patients. Britain's death toll from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has topped 32,000, according to an updated official count released Tuesday, pushing the country past Italy to become the second-most impacted after the United States. (Photo by Neil HALL / POOL / AFP) (Photo by NEIL HALL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Covid, five years on: UK ‘still not ready to protect the population’

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    Uncharted territory for the WHO if Trump withdraws US membership

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      Flu: who is at risk in England and what precautions are recommended?

    • A  masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a  billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

      Are we ready for another pandemic?

    • Commuters carry umbrellas while crossing London Bridge in the rain

      Do long-term sickness benefits cost UK a lot and can more people be helped into work?

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    Five years on, the outbreak of Covid feels both distant and too horribly close

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    • Frances Ryan

      Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it?

      Frances Ryan
    • Red hearts on the National Covid Memorial Wall, with a vase of red roses in front

      The Guardian view on Covid-19, five years on: lessons still to be learned

    • Illustration by Matt Kenyon

      Five years on, the right’s Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream

      Laura Spinney
    • Rowan Williams

      When politicians tell us to focus on growth we need to ask: ‘Why, and for whom?’

      Rowan Williams
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    From the archive: Is society coming apart? – podcast

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    ‘The goal is to disassemble public health’: experts warn against US turn to vaccine skepticism

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      Ten lockdown lessons to learn for next time

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      How Covid changed the British state

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      Local food for schools helps farmers and kids. So why is Trump cutting funding?

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    Inside the mystery of long Covid recovery – podcast

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    ‘The pandemic isn’t over’: my year of long Covid – video

    Darren Parkinson is one of about 2 million people living with long Covid in England and Scotland. The illness is having a detrimental impact on his life, stopping him from being the kind of active and involved parent he wants to be to his two children. The Guardian has spent a year with Darren and his family to document his journey as he tries to recover from long Covid and come to terms with his new reality
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    Everything you need to know about Covid this autumn – podcast

    Madeleine Finlay is joined by Ian Sample, the Guardian’s science editor and Science Weekly co-host, to answer the questions we are all asking about Covid this autumn, from what is going on with the new variant XEC to how to get a vaccine and what scientists think the government should be doing differently
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