Professor Christina Pagel

COVID-19

The UK is no longer offering COVID vaccines to pregnant women – here’s why that might be a bad idea

— From spring 2025, pregnant women will lose free COVID vaccine eligibility in the UK, despite proven maternal and infant protection. Experts challenge the decision’s focus on mortality, overlooking broader health risks.

COVID-19

COVID in kids: Younger children and those from deprived areas are at higher risk of being hospitalised

— A new study looks at all children hospitalised with a first recorded COVID infection in England from July 2020 to February 2022.

Long COVID Kids

Why children in the UK should still be offered the COVID vaccine

— Widespread vaccination of children would likely avert thousands of cases of long COVID in the UK.

COVID-19

Eight changes the world needs to make to live with COVID.

— There is no going back to a pre-pandemic normal – only forward to a new one. The world pre-2020 no longer exists.