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A health worker preparing Covid-19 vaccine doses in South Africa (Credit: Getty Images)
The Health Gap

The people left out of Covid-19 trials

By Sandy Ong and Emma Bryce

There is growing evidence that children are suffering from the affects of long Covid but in ways that may be different to adults (Credit: Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)
Covid-19
How long Covid is affecting children
By David Cox
Test tube and solution (Credit: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images)
Covid-19
Why Covid tests make you feel ill
By David Robson
MRI image of the brain (Credit: Alamy)
Immune Response
What Covid-19 could do to our brains
By David Cox
Crowd of Tokyo train commuters in masks (Credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)
Covid-19
The year of the mask
By Stephen Dowling/Images chosen by Javier Hirschfeld
A lab technician working on a vaccine at Sinovac Biotech in China (Credit: Getty Images)
Immune Response
The dash for new Covid-19 vaccines
By David Cox
Compulsory vaccination in Jersey City, New Jersey (Credit: Alamy)
Immune Response
The long history of vaccine mandates
By Christine Ro
In Singapore, it's common for young children to wear masks against Covid – but some parents worry it might affect their development (Credit: Getty Images)
Family Tree
How face masks affect young children
By Sandy Ong
Israel has vaccinated more than half of 12 to 15-year-olds against Covid-19 – and even some younger children who are at special risk (Credit: Reuters)
Family Tree
Should young kids get the Covid-19 jab?
By Josie Glausiusz
An Israeli health worker preparing to administer a booster shot (Credit: Getty Images)
Immune Response
Do we really need third vaccine doses?
By Zaria Gorvett
Hospitals have seen a surge in RSV cases over the summer, thought to be due to lockdowns during the pandemic lowering levels of immunity (Credit: Jill Lehmann/Getty Images)
Family Tree
How Covid-19 boosted a children's virus
By Sophie Hardach
Fax machines became an essential business tool during the 1970s to the 1990s before they were replaced by email (Credit: Alamy)
Life:Connected
How Covid-19 could end the fax
By Ashifa Kassam
Queue of people and vaccine (Credit: Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images)
Immune Response
Why some people don't want a vaccine
By David Robson
School children have been using soft drinks such as cola to produce fake positive results on Covid-19 tests (Credit: BBC)
Covid-19
How soft drinks can spoof a Covid test
By Mark Lorch
Chlorine dioxide in jar (Credit: Getty Images)
Covid-19
The 'Covid cure' taking root online
By Jose Luis Penarredonda
Box with "memories" tag (Credit: Jan Hakan Dahlstrom)
Medical Myths
An invisible effect of lockdown
By Claudia Hammond