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Patients exposed to dirty air spent four days longer in hospital, the same impact as if they had been a decade older
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School leaders are considering dropping out of the government’s post-pandemic scheme as it prepares to cut funding
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The former chief medical officer for England issued an emotional apology to the Covid bereaved at a public inquiry into the UK's preparedness. It emerged she had asked for a review following an earlier coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong but was told 'it won’t come here'. Prof Dame Sally Davies was being cross-examined when she said 'maybe this is the moment to say how sorry I am to the relatives who lost their families'. Close to tears, Davies said: 'It wasn’t just the deaths, it was the way they died. It was horrible. And I heard a lot about it from my daughter on the frontline, as a young doctor in Scotland. It was harrowing and it remains horrible'
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Boris Johnson’s party antics of course deserve scrutiny, but a chief architect of our woeful Covid response has virtually got away with it, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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The immunologist who runs Scancell is trialling novel treatments to attack tumours, as well as needle-free Covid jabs
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Osborne rejects claims that austerity weakened the UK's pandemic response1:46
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Leshie Chandrapala, a member of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, told the Guardian she felt a 'physical sickness' after watching the video, which appears to show staff members drinking alcohol and dancing1:33
The Guardian view on David Cameron and George Osborne: a duo’s dangerous delusions