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As the UK emerges from lockdown, the news that the Novavax vaccine will be produced and packaged in England is boosting hopes that recovery from COVID-19 is in sight. With the Moderna vaccine also imminent, it might make up for the delays to AstraZeneca imports from the EU and India. This will reassure those who are yet to receive their first dose, supply chain experts Liz Breen and Sarah Schiffling write.
The speedy development of the COVID-19 vaccines is a victory for “greed” and “capitalism”, Boris Johnson has reportedly said. But Gordon-Gecko-style boosterism aside, there’s an unsung hero behind these discoveries – publicly funded research. Meanwhile, it is pointless to expect the pandemic to end on a single day – history warns us to expect smaller flare-ups months and even years into the future.
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Megan Clement
Commissioning Editor, COVID-19
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The end is in sight.
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Liz Breen, University of Bradford; Sarah Schiffling, Liverpool John Moores University
The anticipated arrival of two new vaccines can boost the morale of those worried about the wait for their dose.
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Agnes Arnold-Forster, University of Bristol
History tells us that the end of pandemics are rarely – if ever – neat, uncomplicated, or even easy to date.
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Matt Parker, University of Portsmouth
You share the same drug habits, the same age-related memory problems and are similarly impatient when forced to wait for food.
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Health + Medicine
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David Whyte, University of Liverpool
The development of the COVID-19 vaccines is part of a vast system of public subsidies and universities, not corporate ambition.
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Science + Technology
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Max Telford, UCL; Paschalia Kapli, UCL
Scientists used to believe that a group containing starfish and sea urchin were the closest relatives of vertebrates like humans. But new research challenges this idea.
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Environment + Energy
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Tom Baxter, University of Aberdeen
Hydrogen isn't very efficient, but it fits many business models.
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Melissa Marselle, De Montfort University
All the ways plants, animals, insects and the bacteria around us can be beneficial to human health.
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Politics + Society
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Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University; Jessica Ringrose, UCL; Kaitlynn Mendes, University of Leicester
Thousands of teenagers have spoken up about sexual violence and harassment in secondary education on the Everyone's Invited site.
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Jonathan Parry, University of Cambridge
Britain's preoccupation with the canal was as much about controlling Egypt as it was about global trade.
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Arts + Culture
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Simon Horobin, University of Oxford
How words are used change over time and insisting that their original meaning be adhered to is pretty silly.
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Richard Buscombe, University of East London
Pressure from the crowd causes referees to make different decisions.
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