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FactCheck: how close are we to a cure for coronavirus?
Some recent drug trials have produced disappointing results and there is still no approved treatment for Covid-19.
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Coronavirus tracing app has ‘potential to stop the epidemic’, say Oxford scientists
More than half of the population will need to use the app in order to stop the virus completely.
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How important is the viral load of coronavirus?
FactCheck takes a look at the scientific research around whether the amount of coronavirus particles people encounter is impacting if and how severely they are infected.
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FactCheck: can we trust the Covid-19 death toll?
Counting the number of people who have tragically died from Covid-19 is proving to be a complicated task. Here is FactCheck’s user’s guide to the statistics…
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What is the difficulty in finding how many coronavirus cases are asymptomatic?
One question which is key to understanding how coronavirus works and spreads through a population is about how many people have the disease but never show symptoms.
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Coronavirus: Coping with grief and loss during lockdown
Coronavirus: Coping with grief and loss during lockdown
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The grandparents caring for children during coronavirus outbreak
For huge numbers of grandparents, keeping away from their grandchildren is simply not an option.
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Fears for homeless during coronavirus outbreak
While coronavirus pushes more and more of us into being cocooned at home, what happens if you have no home to retreat to?
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How should people with existing medical conditions arm themselves against coronavirus?
For those living with serious health conditions, avoiding the virus can be a matter of life and death.
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The acute impact flooding has on people’s mental health
There’s a stark warning tonight – about the scale of the threat we face from flooding in the future and about the immense toll it could take on mental health.
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FactCheck: President Trump’s dubious coronavirus claims
Some critics of President Donald Trump have accused of him of making false and confusing statements about the spread of the virus.
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FactCheck Q&A: how do you avoid Coronavirus? Here’s what the experts say
Ministers have been pushing the message that good hand hygiene is a simple way to help prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
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Many still in prison six months after India crackdown in Kashmir
While President Trump refused to comment on protests in the Indian capital, he did offer to mediate on the crisis in Kashmir, saying the region had been “a thorn in lots of people’s sides” for a long time.
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Series 4, Episode 8: Adam Kay
Adam Kay is the author of one of the most successful books of the last couple of years, ‘This is Going to Hurt’, which is based upon his diaries from his former career as a doctor before he quit medicine.
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FactCheck Q&A: does climate change cause flooding?
Climate scientists agree that there are likely to be more episodes of extreme rainfall in the future thanks to changes in global temperature.