Are we already starting to suffer a second wave of Covid-19 before the first wave has even fully subsided? Leicester has seen a surge of more than 600 cases in just two weeks, and is confronted with the prospect of an extended lockdown. Expert agencies such as Public Health England are attributing the upsurge to … Read more
Nearly three months into Britain’s coronavirus pandemic and death and infection rates are falling steadily. Elsewhere in the world, in countries that are some weeks ahead of us and where lockdown restrictions have been eased, there are as yet few signs of a dreaded ‘second wave’ – although it is early days. Now some scientists … Read more
Back in November 1918, the San Francisco authorities thought they had beaten the deadly Spanish flu pandemic that had spread across the globe in only a matter of months. Infection levels in the city had peaked, then dwindled to apparent insignificance. At the centre of the city a whistle blew, signalling the official end of … Read more