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Care home workers to meet with ministers after feeling ‘abandoned’ during Covid

It follows a recent poll where GMB members working in private care homes said things had either stayed the same or worsened since covid.

The Independent UK

Trump administration says it will pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments

Federal health officials said Tuesday they are pulling back $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for local public health departments and other health organizations throughout the nation

The Independent UK

Health experts reveal 24 infectious diseases that could pose major threat to public health - see full list

The list of 24 infectious diseases has been created to help scientists make new tests, vaccines and medication in preparation

The Independent UK

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The solution to workplace isolation might be in the gap − the generation gap

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the United States finds itself in the midst of another public health crisis. This particular pandemic is a psychological one: widespread loneliness and isolation.

The Conversation

USPS Chief Louis DeJoy Resigns Amid Privatization Debate, Trump Administration Scrutiny

Louis DeJoy, appointed postmaster general during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced in February that he would step down. He led the USPS through the pandemic and two high-turnout elections with increased mail-in ballots.

International Business Times

UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families

UK Health Security Agency’s tool highlights viruses and bacteria, many not yet seen in the country, that could pose biosecurity risk

The Guardian - UK

USPS head Louis DeJoy resigns amid reported clash over DOGE access to mail system

The Republican donor was appointed by Trump himself in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic, but reportedly fell out of favor by clashing with DOGE

The Independent UK

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Public money, private patents? Unravelling India’s opacity over its Covid vaccines

Public money, private patents: Unravelling India’s opacity over its Covid vaccines

Newslaundry

NHS reminder to 7.5m people as Covid-19 jab booking system opens

People over the age of 75, residents in care homes for older adults and those with weakened immune systems will be eligible for the jab.

The Independent UK

Love and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On review – is it time to wake up from this collective amnesia?

For most of us, lockdown was like a bad dream. But this extraordinary film meets the people still riddled with guilt and heartbreak – and paints beautiful portraits of those they lost

The Guardian - UK

Love and Loss: The Pandemic Five Years On is an emotionally shattering re-examination of Covid

5/5 This excellent BBC documentary lays bare the political failures and human costs of an unprecedented period in UK history

The Independent UK

Heeding the lessons of COVID-19 in the face of avian influenza

Infectious disease outbreaks have a bad habit of piling on at the worst possible times.

The Conversation

Welfare in numbers: The facts behind Britain’s soaring benefits bill

As Labour attempts to tighten Britain’s burgeoning welfare belt, Alicja Hagopian and David Maddox investigate the true cost of the welfare state

The Independent UK

Scotland avoided PPE ‘VIP lane’ due to devolution, UK Covid-19 Inquiry told

Former Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman told the inquiry that Scotland ‘did not have a VIP lane and did not need one’.

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Swinney speaks of ‘unbearable’ loss of life from Covid on lockdown anniversary

The first lockdown was imposed across the UK on March 24 2020.

Reason

N.C. Court on Compensation for (Apparently Unauthorized) Forced Vaccination by School

The court concludes that the federal 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act preempts state battery claims, but not state constitutional law claims.

Evening Standard

Civil service cuts: where is Rachel Reeves hoping to make savings?

The chancellor says government has grown too big since Covid and she is looking to save £2.2 billion a year

The Guardian - US

‘The goal is to disassemble public health’: experts warn against US turn to vaccine skepticism

As measles sickens hundreds and health secretary RFK Jr spreads dubious information, experts sound the alarm

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The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a painful but lovely film about the victims of the pandemic

Catey Sexton’s documentary remembers how Covid-19 changed us all. Plus: Crongton is a bold new comedy. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Conversation

‘Better than nothing’: clinicians and hospital heads accept lower standards of care outside metro hospitals

Seven million Australians live in rural and remote areas and many struggle to access the same quality of health care as those in metropolitan areas.

The National (Scotland)

Half of UK adults under 44 miss 'Covid lockdown lifestyle', poll finds

ALMOST half of Gen Z Brits miss their lockdown lifestyle five years on from the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study has found ...

Evening Standard

Most of Gen Z have never worked a 5 day office week — and I never want to

Five years on from the Covid lockdown, let’s all say thank you to the pandemic’s true silver lining: the death of the five-day office week

The Independent UK

Post-Covid anxiety and poor mental health a ‘key driver in children skipping school’

Children lost an estimated 11.5 million days of learning last autumn term as school absence rates remain higher than pre-pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Five years on, the outbreak of Covid feels both distant and too horribly close

My phone tells me it made a ‘Five Years Since!’ slideshow, a kind of greatest hits of photos from March 2020, soundtracked by cheerful, plinking guitar

The Guardian - UK

Ten lockdown lessons to learn for next time

Five years since Boris Johnson ordered the UK to stay home, steps to prepare for the next national emergency are clearer

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