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  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    A universal Covid vaccine may be our best means of escape

    A jab that protects against all Sars-Cov-2 variants — present and future — might be possible

  • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
    Medical science
    How a US agency hopes to predict disease just like the weather

    National and global security demand a permanent epidemiological watch

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    Vaccines have been oversold as the pandemic exit strategy

    Covid will be around for a long time — virus suppression is the right policy

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    The pandemic’s darkest hour is yet to come

    Fresh lockdowns are needed to slow the rapid spread of new Covid-19 variants and inevitable deaths

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Will a very Merry Christmas mean a painful New Year?

    The trouble with the government’s mixed messages on Covid restrictions is that we can choose which ones to hear

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    Should we take a chance and divert early booster shots to the unprotected?

    Leaving vulnerable people unvaccinated while second doses languish in fridges is also a risk

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Life after Covid-19: What are we going to do now?

    The Pope, Ivan Krastev and Fareed Zakaria on processing the pandemic

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    Rolling out vaccines to care homes first comes with risks attached

    Elderly people are more likely to have health problems that could be conflated with adverse reactions

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    UK approval of Covid vaccine is a giant hooray for science

    The surge in optimism is fully warranted but must also be accompanied by forbearance

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  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    Doubts raised over AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine data

    Oxford university acknowledges error that forced trial to switch dosing regimens

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Health misinformation pollutes the web, with consequences for all

    Conspiracy theories about vaccines could affect how smoothly the world recovers from the coronavirus crisis

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Coronavirus treatment
    Should the old or the young be vaccinated first?

    Government and citizens must discuss how to allocate anti-Covid remedies

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Mink slaughter seeks to save Denmark from being a new Wuhan

    A preventive Covid cull of 17m minks sets a crucial health precedent: the importance of overreacting

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    Medical science
    Focus on non-medical strategies in the fight against Covid

    Mask-wearing or curfews? A second wave is a chance to gather evidence on behavioural science

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Covid-19 is really a syndemic — and that shows us how to fight it

    Coronavirus does not act alone but with co-morbidities such as obesity and diabetes

  • Sunday, 27 September, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Let’s be clear on policy trade-offs over a second wave of Covid

    In a pandemic that could run for years, all the choices are unenviable

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    Space exploration
    Searching for life on Venus is a stab in the colossal dark

    Researchers insist that only alien lifeforms would explain their detection of phosphine 

  • Wednesday, 9 September, 2020
    Space exploration
    Why merger of black holes should have been impossible

    This intriguing collision of light-slurping titans was a cataclysmic event that defies convention

  • Tuesday, 18 August, 2020
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    A diet designed to save us, and the planet

    What could a healthy and sustainable diet look like?

  • Friday, 31 July, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    School beckons for our treasured little germ factories

    Lessons from countries that have reopened classrooms successfully will be vital

  • Tuesday, 14 July, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    An airborne virus is a threat worth taking seriously

    Scientists are questioning whether droplets can explain all cases of coronavirus transmission

  • Monday, 6 July, 2020
    Disease control and prevention
    Immunity sampling might have slowed Covid-19

    Blood samples from children in Madagascar enabled predictions of a measles epidemic

  • Tuesday, 23 June, 2020
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
    Summer books of 2020: Health

    Anjana Ahuja selects her best mid-year reads

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    Coronavirus: free to read
    The long road to a Covid-19 vaccine

    The world is waiting for a breakthrough that will allow a return to normality but there are possible risks attached

  • Tuesday, 16 June, 2020
    Disease control and prevention
    The two-metre rule and other imperfect Covid-19 risk calculations

    A fixation on specific distances encourages a false, binary distinction between safety and danger

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