Health

Doctors from the British Medical Association (BMA) are urging England's chief medical officer to "urgently review" plans to allow a 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer/BioNtech coronavirus vaccine. UK government officials had said that second...

Ten people have been given antibodies as a form of emergency protection after being exposed to coronavirus, in the first trial of its kind. The experimental jab is being offered to people who have been in close contact with a...

A vaccine kit sent to the wrong state. A hospital system in California expecting to get powdered vaccines instead of frozen vials. And tens of thousands of people expect to get vaccinated in the coming weeks, when in reality they...

In any conversation about vaccine safety, there is one statistic worth holding on to: one in 1,000. One in 1,000 of the entire UK population has already died after being infected with coronavirus during the pandemic. This is the known...

Gyms and non-essential shops in all parts of England will be allowed to reopen when lockdown ends next month, the prime minister has announced. Boris Johnson told the Commons that the three-tiered regional measures will return from 2 December, but...

A third candidate vaccine is also extremely effective against COVID-19, confirming that previous results were not a fluke and that vaccination offers a way out of the pandemic. AstraZeneca and Oxford University's vaccine, which uses a different technology but the...

The recession is over. The UK saw the best economic growth on record. But times are still hard, and the economy is not actually doing that well. How can all these things be true at the same time, and why...

US and European central bank chiefs have said that the global economic outlook remains uncertain despite some promising vaccine trials. Fed chair Jerome Powell and ECB President Christine Lagarde said the economy was still in for a tough time. This...

The day President Donald Trump turns the White House over to Joe Biden, COVID-19 will remain just as big a threat to Americans. But the strategy for tackling it will change dramatically. Public health experts expect a major reset, including a...

Boris Johnson went nuclear on Manchester. The U.K. prime minister risked a political and public backlash as he imposed coronavirus restrictions on the region from Friday morning following a furious dispute with local leaders. Mayors, council leaders and MPs, including...