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Jan 23, 2024 · The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set its Doomsday Clock at a new time that indicates how close we are to making Earth uninhabitable for humanity.
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Sep 15, 2021 · The 'end' of COVID-19 might mean the point at which is can be managed as an endemic disease; however, the emergence of a significant new variant is the greatest risk which could hinder this. The data shown in the piece was correct as of 23/08/21. Since the March installment in this series, many countries, including the United States, Canada ...
Mar 23, 2024 · Four years after the UK's first COVID lockdown was announced, infectious disease experts explain why it's increasingly likely a virus will "jump" from animals to humans and cause another pandemic.
- Lara Keay
Jan 23, 2024 · Scientists and experts at the helm of the Bulletin said their decision to hold the clock at 90 seconds to midnight in 2024 — the same position it held in 2023, the closest to midnight...
- emilymae.czachor@paramount.com
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- Emily Mae Czachor
While the UK is ahead of most of the world due to a combination of vaccines and a large number of infections, the planet is not remotely close to seeing the end of the pandemic.
Jan 31, 2022 · Rapid spread. Numbers of Omicron infections can double in less than two days, which is significantly faster than previous SARS-CoV-2 variants and closer to what public-health officials would...
Oct 11, 2022 · However, they said in late September that both the ongoing global death toll — 10,000 a week — and the prospect that the continuing, widespread transmission around the world will spawn a dangerous new variant prevents them from declaring an end to the COVID-19 emergency.
