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There will be no ‘victory’ or ‘armistice day’ – the reality of how pandemics end is far more complicated than that, says the science writer Philip Ball

Pandemics have shaped societies by transforming science and changing the physical environment

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Official COVID-19 death toll worldwide reaches four million Since the first confirmed death from COVID-19, a 61-year-old man who frequented the Hunan wet market in Wuhan, that occurred on January 11, 2020, as of this writing, 541 days and 3,996,185 lives (according to the Worldometer dashboard) have passed, a rate of almost 7,400 lives per day. By the time the extended July 4 weekend will have concluded, the number of lives lost will have exceeded 4 million confirmed deaths, with the highest de...

Indias Covid vaccination tally over 9.25 cr with around 30 lakh new jabs As we enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the end of its rampage seems nowhere near. Nearly all countries across the world are reporting a second onslaught or wave of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus-caused infection, with some countries including India witnessing a more aggressive spread. Around 100 years ago, another pandemic devastated the world and claimed over 50 million worldwide—the Spanish Flu. Its second w...

Article content Respiratory pandemics come along every few decades. Serious ones, every 50 or 100 years. And while the way we have come to live may seem so alien and unnatural, plagues have been “a part of our story for a very long time,” Dr. Nicholas Christakis writes in his new book on this newest plague. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Its only the end of the beginning. COVID-19 will be with us for years Back to video Since the birth of ...

PostPandemic: Even in a post-pandemic world, will we ever again feel comfortable shaking a hand or kissing a cheek?

History suggests that we might forget the COVID-19 pandemic sooner than we think Even the Spanish flu quickly faded from collective memory, and we must ensure that the same does not happen again By Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian One day, this will all be over. That is hard to believe now, when even last month seemed interminable, the January that refused to end. However, one day, not soon perhaps, we will speak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the past tense. When that time comes, how will we ...

UPDATED: January 9, 2021 07:31 IST Winter solstice. Concealed in a cloud, Jupiter and Saturn kiss unseen. With 78 million lives interrupted by a speck of RNA gone rogue, Earth is a grisly planet. Even in an appalling year, because life is more than srushti pushti nashti, bookwards we leaned, inevitably reading more about pandemics. Words, words, words—but you’ve heard that one before. Mark Honigsbaum, with nine examples of pestilence, paints the 20th as The Pandemic Century. Armed with germ...