Flu hospitalisations in England have jumped by more than 40% in a week as they overtake Covid admissions for the first time and the NHS braces for one of the worst outbreaks of the virus in recent years.
Only older and vulnerable people need to get an annual Covid booster, according to the CEO of Moderna Stéphane Bancel, who also likened the virus to seasonal flu.
The NHS is in a perpetual winter crisis, something that more than doubling the budget in the 2000s did nothing to change. With beds already 95% occupied, will Therese Coffey's plan to get us through the winter work?
Figures from the Southern Hemisphere, which usually foretell what will happen in the U.K., indicate a large flu surge two months earlier than normal, mostly driven by under-30s.
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson have launched a new Substack account that everyone should subscribe to. In their latest post, they look at masks and say the clinical trial evidence suggests they're ineffective.
Business and current affairs magazine the Economist has suggested that instead of treating Covid like the flu, we should start treating the flu like Covid.
The World Health Organisation has said we are only at the "halfway mark" of the pandemic and warned against treating Covid like flu, days after the Government said it intended to do just that.
Uh-oh, now they're redefining the word 'endemic' in a way that moves the end of the emergency even further away. But endemic is simple. Flu is endemic. Covid is now like flu. QED.
Some Brits say they are suffering from 'super colds', with flu immunity having weakened following months of closures and isolation.
The Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency says Covid may no longer be the "most significant" threat to health, especially given the impact of lockdowns and social distancing on immunity to seasonal flu.
