“Andrew Bailey’s note of Covid caution” – Kate Andrews provides some analysis on the prospect of inflation in the Spectator, following the Bank of England Governor’s forecast that economic output will be back to its pre-Covid level by the end of the year
“Vaccine death or coincidence?” – Kate Dunlop looks at the difficulties in distinguishing a causal effect from a coincidence for the Conservative Woman
“Is Europe’s AstraZeneca jab decision-making flawed?” – Nick Triggle asks why so many European countries have suspended the roll out of the AstraZeneca vaccine for the BBC. They’re using the precautionary principle, he writes, “which can sometimes do more harm than good”
“The gradual return of good sense” – Outside of a few states, America is practically back to normal, says Jeffrey A. Tucker of AIER
“The one-year anniversary of lockdowns” – Edward Peter Stringham marks the anniversary of lockdowns with a piece for AIER noting that even some lockdown supporters have stopped arguing that they work
“Non-Covid death epidemic of the future” – The cost of lockdown will be accounted for, says Parvez Dara at AIER, in a “rash of deaths that could have been prevented in the recent past and more so in the coming future, from not screening, [and] not diagnosing”
“Virus tolls similar despite governors’ contrasting actions” – AP News puzzles over the mystery of why Florida and California have an almost identical number of Covid deaths per million in spite of their different approaches to managing the pandemic
"This House criminalised the freedom of protest. Us… not the Metropolitan Police, we did," says Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker who adds, "now is the time to decriminalise the freedom of protest"
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