Europe: News and Commentary
France24: Prof Oliver Davis on France anti-health pass protests
Professor Oliver Davis, from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, is interviewed on France24 (English) about the major demonstrations taking place across France against the tightening of restrictions around the 'pass sanitaire', or vaccine passport.
wprost: How is the British dealing with the pandemic after lifting restrictions?
Polish news. “We would like to believe that we are at a turning point; but you have to wait until all the data shows it, ”said Dr. Mike Tildesley of the University of Warwick.
El Pais: Diagnosis on canvas
Spanish news. The diagnosis on canvas is a curious medical analysis by which the ailments that the characters represented in the paintings suffered in the past are identified. The anthropologist Raffaella Bianucci of the University of Warwick made breast cancer known in Michelangelo's sculpture La Notte as well as in paintings by Michele Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio and Maso da San Friano.
Scinexx: Long Covid - what role does the Epstein-Barr virus play?
German science news. Professor Lawrence Young from the University of Warwick, who was not involved in the study, also sees this option: “If a direct role of EBV reactivation in Long Covid is supported by further studies, then this offers the chance of a better diagnosis of Long Covid, but also on the possible therapeutic benefits of antiviral herpes active ingredients such as ganciclovir," said Young.
FAZ: all COVID rules lifted in England
German news. University of Warwick infectious disease specialist Mike Tildesley told the BBC on Monday, "I think it's pretty confusing for people what the right thing to do now." He hoped enough people would weigh the risks themselves with this the number of infections does not continue to rise as strongly. See also ORF (Austrian broadcaster); Schwabische (German); Der Tagesspiegel (German); Berliner Morgenpost (German); n-tv (German)
Business Insider FR: Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk's 6 biggest obstacles to colonizing space
French news. David Armstrong, University of Warwick, said: "If trained astronauts, who are special people, lose significant amounts of bone density, how could anyone live in this environment all the time?"
L'Huff Post: Infections are falling in London
Italian news. "The growing spread of the coronavirus among the under 30s is the basis of projections such as that of Mike Tildelsley of the University of Warwick, which predicts a peak of 150,000 infections per day in the fall."
Agencia Sinc: Anti-intellectualism and Covid-19
Spanish news. The researcher at the University of Warwick (UK) Eric Jensen believes that the attitude of the population has become more positive towards science and claims to see no evidence that there is a "growing sector" of people with an anti-intellectualist mentality.
SciencePost: If there is life around a white dwarf, it evolved after the star died
French science news. In a recent study, researchers at the University of Warwick (UK) asked themselves the following two questions: How will the intensity of the solar wind change over the next five billion years, when our star will turn into red orb? And could the Earth's magnetosphere survive this cosmic assault? See also ABC (Spanish); ML Actu (French); Notize Scientifische (Italian)
RTBF: Why contaminations exploded in the Netherlands, France, Spain
Belgian news. “If you look at the data from the Netherlands, it's pretty clear that it was this nightclub environment that fueled this rate of infection,” said Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School to CNBC.