“Did I give my patients Covid?” – Writing in UnHerd, an anonymous junior doctor, who they have called Jane Smith, says that she has watched her “hospital make mistake after mistake” in the face of Covid
“Furlough free-for-all is poor value for money” – The US model of higher jobless benefits and universal stimulus cheques looks a more sensible approach, says Ed Conway in the Times
“Will Covid cost less than expected?” – At the Spectator, Kate Andrews finds cause for some optimism in yesterday’s update from the Office for National Statistics
“Our very British brand of totalitarianism” – Huxley’s dystopian vision in Brave New World is the one we’re headed for, writes James Jeffrey in the Critic, not George Orwell’s
“One of the lockdown’s greatest casualties could be science” – “Politicians, journalists, and scientists have transferred the disease burden onto the working class,” write Professor Martin Kulldorff and Professor Jay Bhattacharya in the Federalist. “They’ve also dangerously undermined scientific inquiry”
“Britain’s ‘One-Jab’ Strategy” – The British vaccine strategy is working and it offers “lessons for the world”, says David Leonhardt at the New York Times
“Debate: are vaccine passports necessary?” – Watch Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch debate the question with Kirsty Innes of the Tony Blair Institute on LockdownTV by UnHerd
“AstraZeneca: German team discovers thrombosis trigger” – Scientists at Greifswald teaching hospital claim to have discovered the cause of the blood clots in vaccine recipients, but doctors are saying that it can be treated, says Deutsche Welle
“Hamburg to return to full lockdown” – The harbour city state is set to enter another lockdown, Deutsche Welle reports, and Cologne is also tightening the rules
“Essential and non-essential: Never again” – Governments and societies must never again distinguish between the ‘essential’ and the ‘non-essential’ businesses, writes Jack Nicastro at AIER
Gove has opened a review into whether COVID-status certificates should be used in the UK. The proposal would be divisive, discriminatory and wrong.https://t.co/uI2zB4eMbA
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