UK coronavirus

In April, British Prime MinisterBoris Johnsonbecame one of the first high-profile world leaders to contract the novel coronavirus. He was hospitalized for about a week, including several nervous days…

In the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic Boris Johnsonclaimed his government was “following the science” at every step of its plan. But as the virus resurges and asecond wave of…

Boris Johnson has announced this week some new easing of lockdown measures in England. Under the new rules, pubs, cafes, restaurants can reopen for regular business. Previously, restaurants and cafes…

DECEMBER 2019 – PREHISTORY In days of yore, when no one knew the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic – apart from epidemiologists, whose job title nobody could yet…

Even before the coronavirus hitBritain, exhaustion, anxiety, and stress were already endemic in the country's overstretched National Health Service. Then came the government’s mishandling of the…