Health Matters: Delivering the flu immunisation programme during the COVID-19 pandemic

The latest edition of Health Matters, PHE’s professional resource, focuses on the national flu immunisation programme and the delivery of the 2020/21 programme, which will be the largest one to date offering 30 million people a flu vaccine. This blog provides a summary of the full edition’s content and the main things to know about … Read more

1 Million People Have Died of COVID-19. It’s a Reminder That We Still Have So Much to Do

With an ever-climbing tally of COVID-19 infections, deaths, and calculations about how quickly the virus is spreading, the numbers can start to lose meaning. But one million is a resonant milestone. According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the world has now lost one million lives to the new coronavirus. It’s easy to draw … Read more

A Rare Expansion in Abortion Access Because of COVID-19

When the FDA approved mifepristone in late September 2000, advocates believed it was going to change abortion care in this country. Mifepristone causes an abortion when used with another long-approved drug, misoprostol. (In the United States, this regimen is used through ten or eleven weeks of pregnancy.) “Medication abortion,” as this new modality was called, … Read more