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Generation childless: Has Covid caused a baby bust?

Baby boom or baby bust?  Credit: Shutterstock If you’d asked me around a year ago where I saw myself now, I’d have answered, half-joking, ‘with a baby’. That is where my life was going. My fiancé and I had started having fertility treatment. Having tried to have children for a year without success, we had been to see a Harley Street specialist and I had begun taking medication. As we explored the first steps towards IVF, I had begun picturing motherhood. A year later, that all seems pure fantasy. When clinics shut last March, all fertility treatment ceased. Then I split from my fiancé. In the months that followed, as meeting someone during lockdown became increasingly difficult, motherhood slipped into feeling impossible.

Jon Sopel interview: BBC North America editor on Trump and Biden

April 22, 2021 From the Republican’s shock election victory in November 2016 through to the 6 January storming of the US Capitol, the Trump era captivated the world. Sopel, already an important correspondent for the British public, became one of the BBC’s most in-demand commentators. (He also had three books published during Trump’s reign, the latest of which was titled ‘Unpresidented’.) So when asked if he is missing Trump, Sopel doesn’t hesitate. “Yes,” he says over a video interview (excerpts below), before breaking into a chuckle. “As a television journalist, every day was a five-course blowout feast with Donald Trump. There were endless tweets. There were the briefings that would explode. There was the name-calling. There were fantastic visuals. There’d be the rallies.

Pandemic stigma: Foreigners, doctors wrongly targeted for COVID-19 spread in India

 E-Mail The Indian public blamed foreigners, minority groups and doctors for the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the country during the first wave, due to misinformation, rumour and long-held discriminatory beliefs, according to an international study led by Monash University. This resulted in people refusing to get tested for fear of humiliation or public reprisals, which included attacks on Muslims and health care workers. However, when presented with accurate and reliable information about the virus spread, the Indian public back-pedalled on those negative sentiments and were more likely to get tested and seek medical help, highlighting the importance of health advice from credible sources.

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