Fitter, better rested, more appreciative: research reveals the positive changes experienced by some during lockdown

Dudarev Mikhail/Shutterstock National lockdowns have been the most profound and significant public health interventions within living memory. They have been difficult socially and economically, and have negatively affected people’s health in many different ways. But for some people lockdowns have provided an unexpected opportunity to make positive changes to theirContinue Reading

Mass polio vaccination in Columbus, US, circa 1961.

“The scientists have done it,” said the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson in December 2020, hailing the development of the new COVID-19 vaccine. Johnson insisted that this success brought “sure and certain knowledge” that people would soon be able to reclaim their lives. But since this optimistic declaration, the COVIDContinue Reading