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Recent advances and updates in biomedical science

Deputy Editor Guy Orchard summarises a review paper and looks at planned special issues of the British Journal of Biomedical Science.

With this latest synopsis we focus on infectious disease and more specifically a review paper by AD Blann and R Heitmar, who discuss the viral disease known as COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2. This infection is now the leading cause of death by a single infectious agent worldwide.

The review examines certain components of the pandemic: its origins, early clinical observational data, global and UK-focused epidemiology, vaccination, variants, and the subsequent rise and impact of long COVID.

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