In 2020 anyone claiming Covid was like influenza was branded a conspiracy theorist. Yet now we hear demands for masks and social distancing for flu. But asymptomatic spread is a myth for flu as well, says Dr Clare Craig.
NHS hospitals are telling patients, visitors and staff to wear face masks due to rising levels of winter bugs and low vaccine take-up, despite the lack of good evidence that they work.
Deaths in 2023 ran 20% above expected levels with much of it due to mortality from non-respiratory causes (e.g. heart problems) running way above historic levels since early 2021. Why are so many people dying early?
Since Covid, journalists have picked up an unhealthy new pastime, says Eugyppius: feverishly reporting on the incidence of normal winter viruses as though they are something alarming when they are no such thing.
Brits should brace for another Covid resurgence this winter, health chiefs have said amid an uptick in cases. Oh dear, is this still a thing?
It’s that time of the year when the first murmurings of winter crisis emerge in the NHS and politicians scramble to 'do something'. But will this year's 'Winter Plan' be any better than those before it?
Unwell adults should stay at home and wear a mask if they have to go outside, health chiefs said today amid warnings the NHS is facing more pressure than it did during the peak of the pandemic.
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.
Flu is back with a large and early surge, leading several Southern California hospitals to begin using overflow tents to cope with a rising number of patients with respiratory illness. What's driving it?
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?
