All posts by Simon Nicholas Williams
How austerity made the UK more vulnerable to COVID
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The concept of austerity featured prominently in the first round of hearings of the UK’s COVID inquiry, which has recently come to a close. Notably, former chancellor George Osborne claimed that austerity had a “positive” effect on the…
COVID is officially no longer a global health emergency – here’s what that means (and what we’ve learned along the way)
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO’s new strategy to transition from an emergency response to longer-term sustained COVID…
COVID or the common cold? What to do if you have symptoms this Christmas
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. There’s a lot to be jolly about this Christmas. COVID has been significantly, although not completely, “defanged”, thanks to vaccines and treatments. Christmas dos, nativity plays and New Years Eve parties are all back on the festive calendar….