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Ivermectin tablets arranged in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned??Americans against taking??ivermectin, a drug usually used on animals, as a treatment or prevention for Covid-19. Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Ivermectin 'buyers clubs' want to use the drug to treat covid-19

Ivermectin has gained notoriety as an unproven drug for preventing or treating covid-19. Now people in the UK are trying to find ways to use it

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Auckland's strict lockdown will start to ease on 6 October

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Why is New Zealand seemingly giving up on its zero-covid strategy?

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A vaccination clinic at an elementary school in Louisville, Kentucky, in April.

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Prioritising covid vaccines for people of colour may have saved lives

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A nurse (L) prepares to administer a Pfizer booster vaccine to at a vaccination centre in Derby, central England on September 20, 2021. - Frontline health and social care workers, older people and the clinically vulnerable in Britain started on Monday to receive a booster jab against Covid 19. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Should you get a covid vaccine booster shot if you're offered one?

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A goose with a lake in the background

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Birds flocked to North American cities during covid-19 lockdowns

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Why covid-19 hospitalisations may soar in England despite vaccination

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Why covid-19 hospitalisations may soar in England despite vaccination

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Covid-19 news archive: July to September 2021

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Covid-19 news archive: July to September 2021

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Illustration of antibodies (cream colour) responding to an infection with the coronavirus (orange colour)

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Cheap covid-19 antibody test shows if you have immunity in 5 minutes

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Laguna Niguel, CA - August 17: A kindergarten student gives the thumbs up to her teacher before starting the first day of kindergarten at Laguna Niguel Elementary School in Laguna Niguel, CA on Tuesday, August 17, 2021. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

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Is the delta coronavirus variant more dangerous for children?

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We should isolate when we have flu, not just covid-19

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We should isolate when we have flu, not just covid-19

The new social norm of isolating when ill with covid-19 should apply to other infectious diseases such as flu, says Jonathan Goodman

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Generation Covid: What the pandemic means for young people’s futures

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Younger generations are the most fatalistic about climate change

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Blood test could reveal who is most likely to get severe covid-19

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Warning over coronavirus measures in England's schools

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