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Coronavirus

  • Older woman and younger women, smiling, smell an orange and a gel in a small pot

    First patient in UK tests new treatment for loss of sense of smell

  • Keir Starmer speaking at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday

    Keir Starmer’s voice coach needed in person during Covid restrictions – No 10

    Tories call for police investigation into whether Labour leader broke lockdown rules when preparing Brexit speech
  • Trump looks at camera onboard plane

    Trump’s revenge agenda has shocked officials who ‘didn’t think it was going to be this bad’, insiders say

    Trump’s better-known adversaries were expecting payback, but more intense vengeance is being felt by civil servants

  • CIA now backs lab leak theory to explain origins of Covid-19

  • Trump pulls security detail for former top health official Anthony Fauci

  • Inquest exposes poor leadership, insufficient testing at aged care home that saw 19 Covid deaths in 2020

  • Child deaths in England rising above pre-pandemic levels, study finds

  • Former vaccines tsar describes ‘open warfare’ within UK government during Covid pandemic

  • ‘Sowing seeds for next pandemic’: Trump order for US to exit WHO prompts alarm

  • RFK Jr reportedly sought to block Covid-19 vaccinations at height of pandemic

  • Uncharted territory for the WHO if Trump withdraws US membership

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Explainers & analysis

  • a child cries while receiving a vaccine as a person holds them

    Uncharted territory for the WHO if Trump withdraws US membership

  • A woman wrapped up in blankets in bed with a themometer and cold relief medicines.

    Flu: who is at risk in England and what precautions are recommended?

    • A masked woman looks at her phone as she passes a billboard that shows multiple hands, each bearing a flag from a different nation, towards a floating vial and syringe

      Are we ready for another pandemic?

    • Commuters carry umbrellas while crossing London Bridge in the rain

      Do long-term sickness benefits cost UK a lot and can more people be helped into work?

    • Boris Johnson

      Covid, canal raids and May’s nostrils: six key takeaways from Boris Johnson’s memoir

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Opinion

  • Darren Loucaides

    Robert F Kennedy Jr has mass appeal despite his extreme ideas. This theory explains why

    Darren Loucaides
    • Alexander Fanta

      I asked to see Ursula von der Leyen’s texts to Pfizer’s boss and she went to court to stop me. Why the secrecy?

      Alexander Fanta
    • Zoe Williams

      The ‘quad-demic’ is here – and with it I have become a disease detective

      Zoe Williams
    • Jochan Embley

      It’s Spotify Wrapped season: a reminder of how incredibly dull streaming services have made us

      Jochan Embley
    • Liz Carr

      MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot

      Liz Carr
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In depth

  • Older couple resting on grassy coastal cliff wiith view of Jurassic coast, Dorset, England

    ‘My happy, safe world was turned upside down’: how Covid hit England’s over-50s

  • Illustration: Observer Design.

    ‘We think of the body as a map’: a new approach to deciphering long Covid

    • a man looking at the camera

      ‘Life-or-death consequences’: families fear rollback of school vaccine requirements under RFK Jr

    • Christie Watson and Rowan Egberongbe.

      Lost and found: a mother and daughter on surviving teenage mental breakdown in the social media age

    • An aerial view of a snow-covered Liverpool, including buildings in the life sciences hub and the city's port

      From the Beatles to biologics – how Liverpool became a life science hotspot

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Multimedia

  • ‘The pandemic isn’t over’: my year of long Covid – video

  • 3D rendering of Covid-19

    Everything you need to know about Covid this autumn – podcast

    Madeleine Finlay is joined by Ian Sample, the Guardian’s science editor and Science Weekly co-host, to answer the questions we are all asking about Covid this autumn, from what is going on with the new variant XEC to how to get a vaccine and what scientists think the government should be doing differently
  • Yellowing, transparent skin on a hand and forearm

    Transparent skin, bird flu, and why girls’ brains aged during Covid: the week in science – podcast

    Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new technique that uses food colouring to make skin transparent, to the first case of bird flu in a person with no known contact with sick animals, and a study looking at premature brain ageing in young people during Covid
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