Tom Clarke
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Covid: What we know so far about vaccine effectiveness among immunosuppressed people
A study by a research group has found that almost 60% of people with weakened immune systems still had a robust response to vaccination. | ITV National News → Read More
Covid: What comes next in the fight against the virus after England's July 19 reopening?
Prof Neil Ferguson, a leading government Covid adviser, tells ITV News what the scientists are looking at and what the worst case scenario could be. | ITV National News → Read More
The hi-tech images of insects that could predict how species might be affected by climate change
Researches use a type of X-Ray to examine insects, which they say will allow them to understand the planet's biodiversity. → Read More
Covid: Don't turn your nose up at using waste water as way of tracking coronavirus outbreaks
Our sewage system could become a powerful early warning system for tracking new and emerging Covid variants. → Read More
Covid: PM 'confident' restrictions in England will end on July 19
ITV News caught up with Professor Graham Medley, the man who chairs the government’s team of disease modellers. → Read More
Preparing for the next pandemic: Five things we learned from Sir Patrick Vallance
Ahead of the G7 summit, we sat down with the government chief scientist Sir Patrick Vallance to talk about how to prepare for the next pandemic. → Read More
Covid: How worried should we be by the rise in cases of the Indian variant?
The latest numbers on the India variant are out. And they aren’t the news we’d be hoping for, ITV News Science Editor Tom Clarke explains. → Read More
Covid: One vaccine dose can reduce spread of coronavirus by 65% and why this is massively important
What's better than a vaccine that stops you getting seriously ill and dying from Covid-19? One that stops you getting infected in the first place. → Read More
Climate change: How Boris Johnson's 2035 emissions target really is the bare minimum
ITV News Science Editor Tom Clarke on how the conservative emissions target allows the government to remain credible in its fight against climate action. → Read More
AstraZeneca: Why the vaccine's benefits far outweigh any risks so far
Covid-19 is indisputably more dangerous than any of the minor and as-yet unproved risks of the vaccine. → Read More
Brazilian Covid variant: What happened in Brazil and why there are concerns over virus strain
To understand why there’s concern about the Brazilian variant, we need to look at Manaus, where Covid cases started to rise again in December. → Read More
Covid variant of concern - what does this mean and how concerned should we be?
Public Health England have identified four new variants - two are deemed to be 'under investigation' and two 'of concern'. → Read More
UK Covid variant has taken an evolutionary step towards avoiding our immune system
The UK variant has taken on a key genetic characteristic of the SA strain that could help it evade existing antibodies to Covid or to vaccines being rolled out. → Read More
Why testing vaccines against the new Covid-19 variants is good news
While we'd all hoped the first generation of vaccines would be perfectly effective against Covid-19, we can't stop the virus evolving. → Read More
New strain of Covid set to become dominant form of the virus but there is no need to panic
Scientists have concluded there is nothing to stop the new strain of Covid-19 from becoming the dominant form of the virus in the coming months. → Read More
Jury still out on new Covid-19 mutant
For now, we have to treat the new Covid strain like we should all new suspects: innocent until proven guilty. → Read More
How soybeans in Brazil are feeding the UK's insatiable chicken addiction
ITV News has been able to track soy beans from Brazil to the UK, which are helped to feed the UK's insatiable appetite for chicken. → Read More
Oxford Covid-19 vaccine: Could it be the one that ends the pandemic?
The results from the Oxford vaccination trials may well be the historic moment in the development of a Covid-19 vaccine. → Read More
Why we don't yet know if the Oxford vaccine is the Christmas cracker we hoped for
The Oxford Covid vaccine has shown to produce a strong immune response in older adults. This is good news, but it's not yet the news we are hoping for. → Read More
Danes on alert for mutant mink Covid-19 strain
Denmark has ordered its military to cull all farmed mink in the country after 12 people have been infected with strain of COVID-19. → Read More