This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by LONDON — An inexpensive steroid reduced deaths from coronavirus infection, helping some of the sickest patients with severe lung damage survive the illness, according to British clinical trial results announced Tuesday in a news release.The 60-year-old drug, dexamethasone, is the first medication shown to increase people’s chances of surviving covid-19, the disease caused by...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by LONDON — An inexpensive steroid reduced deaths from coronavirus infection, helping some of the sickest patients with severe lung damage survive the illness, according to British clinical trial results announced Tuesday in a news release.The 60-year-old drug, dexamethasone, is the first medication shown to increase people’s chances of surviving covid-19, the disease caused by...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson's push to reopen schools in June, to get kids back in classrooms and free up their parents to jump-start Britain's moribund economy, is running into surprisingly steep resistance.Parents here are all jitters. Teachers fret it’s too soon. And the scientific advisers, charged with predicting what’s safe, are offering a muddle of conflicting models.Johnson reaffirmed his plan that primary schools in England should open in a week at a news conference Sunday evening. It’s not going...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson's push to reopen schools in June, to get kids back in classrooms and free up their parents to jump-start Britain's moribund economy, is running into surprisingly steep resistance.Parents here are all jitters. Teachers fret it’s too soon. And the scientific advisers, charged with predicting what’s safe, are offering a muddle of conflicting models.Johnson reaffirmed his plan that primary schools in England should open in a week at a news conference Sunday evening. It’s not going...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLONDON — After seemingly endless negotiations, Britain and the European Union on Thursday announced that they had struck a post-Brexit trade and security deal, which will reshape relations between the two allies and antagonists for years to come, and may begin to mute the bickering that has consumed the sides in rancorous, often nationalistic debate.The details of the world’s largest free-trade pact were still emerging Thursday, but the deal will allow hundreds of billions of dollars in goods to continue to flow — without...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLONDON — After seemingly endless negotiations, Britain and the European Union on Thursday announced that they had struck a post-Brexit trade and security deal, which will reshape relations between the two allies and antagonists for years to come, and may begin to mute the bickering that has consumed the sides in rancorous, often nationalistic debate.The details of the world’s largest free-trade pact were still emerging Thursday, but the deal will allow hundreds of billions of dollars in goods to continue to flow — without...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLONDON — After Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his government had truly done "everything we could" to save the 100,000 lives taken by the coronavirus so far in Britain, a broad swath of scientists, public health experts, opposition politicians and ordinary citizens heaped scorn on the prideful assertion.Johnson rightly boasted in Parliament on Wednesday that Britain is a world leader at rolling out vaccines — and is the envy of Europe and the United States, having given a first vaccine dose to more than 10 percent of...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareLONDON — After Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his government had truly done "everything we could" to save the 100,000 lives taken by the coronavirus so far in Britain, a broad swath of scientists, public health experts, opposition politicians and ordinary citizens heaped scorn on the prideful assertion.Johnson rightly boasted in Parliament on Wednesday that Britain is a world leader at rolling out vaccines — and is the envy of Europe and the United States, having given a first vaccine dose to more than 10 percent of...WW…

This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareLONDON — The British government announced Wednesday its plan for a complete overhaul of its immigration system — closing its borders to unskilled migrants and instead allowing easier entry for “the brightest and the best from around the world.”Home Secretary Priti Patel called the immigration plan “a historic moment for the whole country,” as the government pledged to transform the British economy by starving its businesses of low-wage workers from Europe and forcing companies to adopt technology and automation...…This article was published more than 3 years agoCommentGift ShareLONDON — The British government announced Wednesday its plan for a complete overhaul of its immigration system — closing its borders to unskilled migrants and instead allowing easier entry for “the brightest and the best from around the world.”Home Secretary Priti Patel called the immigration plan “a historic moment for the whole country,” as the government pledged to transform the British economy by starving its businesses of low-wage workers from Europe and forcing companies to adopt technology and automation...WW…