Analysis
— Drive-throughs not only increase air pollution and emissions, but also contribute to a car-centred culture that we need to avoid.
Public health is the discipline that focuses on preventing disease, extending life, and enhancing well-being through the coordinated actions of society, both public and private entities, communities, and individuals.
Analysis
— Drive-throughs not only increase air pollution and emissions, but also contribute to a car-centred culture that we need to avoid.
Threadscriptor
— Fundamentally, the world is different now, a health expert writes. Acting as if it isn’t, which the UK seems determined to do, may feel good in the short term but will result in a new normal worse than the old one.
COVID-19
— New omicron cases are doubling approximately every two days in some parts of the UK, including London.
COVID-19
— Masks definitely catch some of the virus-laden aerosols and droplets – and that will reduce transmission between people and the number of cases of COVID-19.
Omicron Variant
— There’s a new COVID lineage called B.1.1.529. The World Health Organization called it Omicron as it declared it a “variant of concern” because it has a genetic profile very different from other circulating variants.
COVID-19 & Children
— The removal of centrally mandated bubbles in UK schools is a calamitous move, and one based on a gross misrepresentation of the facts.
What The Experts Say
— On Wednesday Rishi Sunak presented the government’s latest budget. What do experts and professionals think about the government’s 2021 Spring Budget?
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