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Flu pandemic

June 2024

  • Hands with syringe near woman awaiting vaccination

    Immunisation rates fall among Australia’s vulnerable as experts blame pandemic misinformation and practical barriers

    Below-target levels come after record highs in 2020, with some areas in NSW, Queensland and WA now showing consistently lower vaccination rates

May 2024

  • A row of cows stand close together at a farm

    Our unequal earth
    As bird flu hops from cows to humans, dairy farm workers hold the key to preventing a pandemic

  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteria

    Huge number of deaths linked to superbugs can be avoided, say experts

April 2024

  • A man gets the flu vaccine administered at a health centre

    There are new flu vaccines on offer in Australia in 2024. Here’s what to know about them

    Allen Cheng
    With the flu season starting and peaking earlier, there have been several enhancements to influenza vaccines. What are they? And which one should you get?

February 2023

  • George Monbiot

    Be warned: the next deadly pandemic is not inevitable, but all the elements are in place

    George Monbiot
  • Emma Beddington

    Covid was devastating – why are we pretending it didn’t happen?

    Emma Beddington

November 2022

  • Flu vaccine

    Universal flu vaccine may be available within two years, says scientist

    Vaccine against all strains of virus hailed as major step in protecting against potentially devastating flu pandemic

March 2022

  • Man with flu coughing and sneezing<br>GettyImages-148981627

    Bless you! Meet the flu hunters trying to stop the next pandemic in its tracks

    Remember flu? Despite lockdowns holding it at bay, a small group of scientists is searching the globe for deadly new strains – and to work out what to put in next winter’s vaccines

January 2022

  • A miner's daughter carries a young child in her arms in Wigan during the coal strike of 1921.

    Time collapsed as I saw how my grandad lived a century ago. History turned intimate

    David Olusoga
    Offered an early preview of the just-released 1921 census, the historian found himself overcome by details of his forebears’ lives

July 2021

  • Listlessly simmering … Petrov’s Flu, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov.

    Petrov’s Flu review – feverish tale of a pandemic and societal breakdown

    Kirill Serebrennikov’s prescient and audacious but oppressive drama is set in a post-Soviet Russia in the grip of a flu epidemic

March 2021

  • Rachel Whiteread’s Holocaust memorial for Vienna

    The Guardian view on memorials for Covid-19: raw events need distance

    Editorial: The pandemic must be remembered, but there should be caution and patience about how

February 2021

  • Clive Owen and Clare-Hope Ashitey in 2006’s Children of Men

    What does Covid mean for the future of pandemic movies?

    A year of coronavirus may have dented Hollywood’s enthusiasm for films about deadly outbreaks, but the genre has a history of mutating and returning

January 2021

  • A wicker coffin in a new grave, after a burial service at a cemetery in England.

    2020 was deadliest year in a century in England and Wales, says ONS

    Fatalities hit flu pandemic levels of 1918 with more than 608,000 deaths recorded

December 2020

  • US personnel, most of whom were being treated for influenza, at military hospital in Glasgow, Scotland in November 1918

    A Christmas pandemic like no other? They thought that in 1918

    The post-first world war flu outbreak also came in waves and led to school closures and face-mask rows

November 2020

  • Dorsey Armstrong: ‘It’s not, once we make it through, all sunshine and rainbows, but there is hope for improvement in society.’

    What can we learn about 2020 from the Black Death? Dorsey Armstrong has all the answers

    The US professor became an unlikely TV star this year, with a series about the plague. She explains what the 1348 pandemic can tell us today about conspiracy theories, recklessness, deurbanisation and social unrest

October 2020

  • Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in London<br>A general view of ambulances and staff outside the NHS Nightingale Hospital at the Excel Centre, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, May 5, 2020. REUTERS/John Sibley

    Official report that said UK was not prepared for pandemic is published

  • Danes suffering from influenza occupy beds in temporary sick quarters set up in a gymnasium at Copenhagen’s naval shipyard, October 1957.

    From the Guardian archive
    Archive, 1957: flu vaccine for hospitals – epidemic past peak?

August 2020

  • US-HEALTH-VIRUS-MARYLAND-BEACH<br>People walk past a sign advising about social distancing on the boardwalk during the Memorial Day holiday weekend amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 23, 2020 in Ocean City, Maryland. - The beach front destination has lifted its COVID-19 related beach and boardwalk restrictions May 9 and lodging restrictions May 14. The state of Maryland moved from a stay-at-home order to safe-at-home order May 15. (Photo by Alex Edelman / AFP) (Photo by ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Flu and Covid: winter could bring 'double-barrel' outbreak to US, experts say

    But the same measures that fight coronavirus are effective against the flu – and vaccines offer another weapon against it

June 2020

  • Covid-19 investigations
    How would a coronavirus vaccine work and will we even get one? – video explainer

    Science editor Ian Sample explains how vaccines work, runs through some of the main obstacles to creating one for coronavirus and preparing it for public use, and tells us which scenario he thinks is most realistic in the next 18 months   

May 2020

  • Student nurses Moduph Marke from Freetown, Sierra Leone and Rebecca solanke of Lagos, Nigeria hold a new born baby during a midwifery course at the National Training School for Midwives in Woolwich, London. 5th February 1948. (Photo by Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

    The story of black nurses in the UK didn't start with Windrush

    As stark figures on Covid-19 deaths among BAME nurses emerge, it’s vital to recognise their generations-long contribution
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