Growing up in lockdown: young people give their perspectives

Students protest over A-level results, summer 2020. Ilyas Tayfun Salci/Shutterstock Throughout the pandemic, decisions made by adults have had a significant impact on all aspects of young people’s lives, yet some teenagers feel their voice and experiences during the pandemic have not been heard. The political has become personal forContinue Reading

Coronavirus: why combining the Oxford vaccine with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine could make it more effective

Jim Barber/Shutterstock When the efficacy of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was announced in late 2020, there was some confusion. The overall efficacy of the vaccine at stopping people developing symptomatic COVID-19, two weeks after the second dose, was 70%. But this wasn’t the whole picture. This figure was based on averagingContinue Reading