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Why are children catching so many illnesses this winter?

Many countries in the northern hemisphere are seeing surges of childhood respiratory infections like influenza and RSV. While this is partly because child infections fell during covid-19 restrictions, that isn鈥檛 the whole story

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Biggest science news stories of 2022 as chosen by 快猫短视频

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TOPSHOT - Staff members from the Hoshinoya Tokyo hotel demonstrate the "Lantern Dining Experience", where lanterns made by Kojima Shoten - a shop in Kyoto - are used to shroud diners for mask-free dining amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, during a media event at the hotel in Tokyo on February 28, 2022. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

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The covid-19 pandemic鈥檚 third year saw countries adopt new approaches

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A person has their temperature checked before entering a market in Coata, Peru, in July 2020

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Nearly 15 million excess deaths occurred globally in 2020 and 2021

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The omicron coronavirus variant binding to a cell's ACE2 receptor

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Drug that targets ACE2 receptors may work against new covid variants

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Children may be more susceptible to seasonal infections like the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) this winter compared with in pre-pandemic years

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Do we have ‘immunity debt’ and how could it affect our infection risk?

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Children in the UK may be more at risk of infections and other health complications this winter compared with previous years

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Flu, RSV and cost of living will all harm UK child health this winter

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Liver disease deaths in England and Wales are up since pandemic began

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The omicron sub-variant BQ.1.1 has mutations that may help it to spread and perhaps evade past immunity

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A soup of omicron subvariants could drive the next covid-19 wave

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The uptake of covid-19 vaccines varies substantially between children aged 12 to 15 in England

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Covid jab rates vary in England in children of different ethnicities

In England, 15.8 per cent of children aged 12 to 15 from Gypsy or Roma ethnic groups have received at least one vaccine dose, compared with 83.5 per cent of their counterparts in Chinese ethnic groups

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UK isn’t prepared for the next pandemic, says ex-vaccine chief

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Fewer boys born in England and Wales in early stage of the pandemic

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Coronavirus vaccines could cut the risk of long covid by two-fifths

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NHS invites 12 million people to have booster to ward off ‘twindemic’

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