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In today’s newsletter: A new Guardian analysis tells us more about exactly who contributed to violence in July and August

Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health, but where research was still needed to improve their surveillance and diagnosis. In 2018, “disease X” was included, which signified that a…

England’s chief medical officer also tells inquiry that UK’s low level of intensive care provision is a political decision

Immunologists push for increase in testing and more widespread vaccine booster rollout as new variant, XEC, emerges

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Chief medical officer says ‘very low’ capacity made treating the virus difficult

Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, straight to their homes

Prof Kevin Fong, who was on shift during 7/7 bombings, says height of pandemic was like a ‘terrorist attack every day’

A top doctor broke down in tears as he said that scenes in the unit ‘were like nothing I had ever seen’

Last month, a delegation led by Brendan Crabb, head of the Burnet Institute, a prestigious medical research body, met Anthony Albanese in the prime minister’s parliament house office.

With almost no practical plans for bringing UK culture back to strength after 14 years of ‘violent indifference’, the culture secretary repeated the ‘we love you but there’s no money’ mantra