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  • Tim Walz at a rally.

    Republican-led House panel subpoenas Tim Walz over $250m Covid relief fraud

  • a gloved hand injects a vaccine into a person's arm

    ‘A ton of Covid out there’: US summer wave not taken seriously enough – experts

    Epidemiologists push newly approved booster vaccines as current virus strain threatens at-risk groups
  • Female nurse and surgeon in scrubs during surgery<br>Royalty-Free Stock Photography by Rubberball

    Female NHS consultants are closing the ‘gender promotion gap’

    Researchers cite retirement of male consultants during Covid pandemic as key factor
  • ‘They’re about two years behind’: fears for children born during lockdown as they start at school

  • African nations hit by mpox still waiting for vaccines – despite promises by the west

  • ‘Scandalous’ £3.4bn UK state spending on private consultants last year

  • US repeating Covid mistakes with bird flu as spread raises alarm, experts say

  • I would not have been a minister under Tories, says Labour’s Patrick Vallance

  • Communicate risks of not getting Covid vaccine to boost uptake, study suggests

  • Mark Zuckerberg says White House ‘pressured’ Facebook to censor Covid-19 content

  • Fifty English secondary schools suspended more than a quarter of pupils after pandemic

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  • A boy and a girl smile while looking at a piece of paper.

    Top A-level grades are up – but worrying regional disparities remain

  • Baroness Heather Hallett

    Covid inquiry: Hallett prescribes ‘red teams’ as antidote to flawed thinking

    • A woman walks passed the Covid memorial wall

      Hubris and planning for wrong type of pandemic: five takeaways from Covid inquiry verdict

    • Illustration of liquid made from graph paper being poured from the box that features the words: ‘chancellor of the exchequer’

      The economy: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts

    • Photo of the World Health Organization (WHO) logo displayed on screen with medical syringes and vaccine vials

      What is the pandemic accord and why have negotiations been so difficult?

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  • Students reacts after opening their GCSE results at the City of London Academy Southwark.

    The Guardian view on GCSE results day: mind the disadvantage gap

    • Health workers collect samples for testing at the mpox treatment centre in a hospital, north of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 17 August.

      The Guardian view on Africa’s mpox outbreak: Covid lessons need to be learned

    • Pupils from the NPTC Group of Colleges in Neath, South Wales, collecting their A-level results on 15 August 2024

      The Guardian view on A-level results day: great expectations have been met

    • Lucy Easthope

      The correct response to a disaster like Covid is to plan for the next one. I don’t see Britain doing it

      Lucy Easthope
    • Baroness Heather Hallett

      The Guardian view on the Covid inquiry’s first report: poor preparation with tragic consequences

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In depth

  • Jemima Reilly, head teacher of Morpeth secondary school in east London.

    ‘It’s about developing relationships with pupils’: the school working to reduce suspensions

  • Composite image of 10 downing street

    Did that really happen? 14 years of chaotic Tory government

    • Natacha Gray sitting in her wheelchair.

      ‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’: Natacha’s life with long Covid

    • person wearing yellow sits in lifting car in front of rows of boxes

      ‘We’re asking a lot of these people’: how fragile is the global supply chain?

    • Toby sits on his bed with a stuffed Bagpuss and toy dog on either side behind him

      Childhood, interrupted: 12-year-old Toby’s life with long Covid

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Multimedia

  • Pandemic planning 'failed' people in Britain, Covid inquiry finds – video

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    A black hole awakens and why some people avoid Covid: the week in science – podcast

    Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a glimpse of a black hole awakening, to a new blood test that can detect Parkinson’s seven years before symptoms appear, and a study exploring how some people manage to avoid Covid infection
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    Rage, waste and corruption: how Covid changed politics – podcast

    Four years on from the start of the pandemic, the drama may have subsided but the lingering effects go on. Are we suffering from political long Covid? By David Runciman
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