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  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
    Vaccines hold potential to curb antibiotic resistance

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  • Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
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    Jabs for youngest children offer potential new market amid global glut of adult doses

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    Programmes would use smallpox vaccine and immunise close contacts of confirmed cases

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  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
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    UK’s autumn Covid booster campaign could exclude most Britons

    JCVI’s provisional guidance limits top-up jabs to over-65s, frontline health workers and vulnerable younger people

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    Scientists are trying to understand the cause of neurological effects and whether symptoms will be long-lasting

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    Residents and guards suffer on Beijing’s zero-Covid front line

    China’s strict policy puts citizens at mercy of unpredictable isolation orders as security camps outside

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
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    Isolated country has not vaccinated population, stoking worries about potential damage of outbreak

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    Lockdowns, adenoviruses, Covid and exposure to dogs have all been blamed for new cases around the world

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    WHO chief warns that China’s zero-Covid strategy is not sustainable

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    Health body says 15mn people died by the end of 2021, nearly three times official death toll

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    Pyongyang claims to have avoided a big outbreak but experts warn its luck will eventually run out

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    Vulnerable people feel they are forgotten because of government’s ‘living with Covid’ strategy

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    Beware malaria risk from efforts to cool the planet

    The supposedly magic fix of solar geoengineering may have a dangerously uneven impact across the world

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