Five years ago, early career researchers needed help to survive the pandemic. Now they need it again

Five years ago, early career researchers needed help to survive the pandemic. Now they need it again

To ensure a generation of scientists and their future work is not lost, we must turn again to the solutions used during the pandemic.

Mauricio Rodr guez, researcher at the Faculty of Medicine at UNAM, takes stock of the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ed Yong on the Pandemic’s Legacy on Science Research and Reporting

As part of our series looking at the legacy of the pandemic five years on, we talk to Ed Yong about how COVID changed our relationship with health news, reporting and research.

Five years on from the pandemic – the workers who kept us going and the fight they still face

There are moments that will stay with you for the rest of your life. For millions of people across our country, that was five years ago today, Sunday 23 March (writes TUC’s Natahn Oswin). ‘From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction – you must stay at home’ – Prime Minister Boris Johnson The essential workers who kept the country running ‘From this evening, I must give the British people a very simple instruction …

Five Years on: How the pandemic reshaped our lives

Saturday afternoon, listening to the good old Carpenters while sitting on the terrace of my Bandra flat, Mumbai, I take a moment to reflect on the day from exactly five years back. On March 22, 2020, we announced work from home (WFH) at the company I was working for at the time, as a precaution due the surging COVID-19 pandemic. We shut down all our manufacturing plants, R&D facilities, parts centre and all the offices in India and other locatio…