“Alcoholic liver deaths increased by 21% during year of the pandemic” – Increased alcohol consumption during the pandemic is likely driving “an unprecedented acceleration in alcoholic liver disease deaths”, says this press release from Public Health England, commenting on its new analysis of alcohol consumption trends
“Mass testing for flu can help NHS beat winter triple whammy” – A new report from the Academy of Medical Sciences recommends that people be tested for flu in the same way as they are for COVID-19 according to the Times. It warns that influenza and RSV hospital admissions and deaths could be twice what is seen in a normal year
“Unvaccinated as ‘variant factories’?” – Writing for the HART group, Dr Gerry Quinn takes aim at the allegation, made in several media outlets, that unvaccinated people will become potential factories of coronavirus variants. Part of HART’s latest newsletter
“The beautiful game” – “The latest big debate in Covid biosecurity (Covid BS) is whether we should continue to wear face masks when the mandate is lifted,” says Andy Lambeth on Lockdown Satire. He covers everything you need to know
“Our slide into spiritual bankruptcy” – Rebecca D’Amato provides the Conservative Woman with an account of our “apparent, collective slide away from humanity, humility and stoicism towards an emotional immaturity, division and spiritual bankruptcy
“The Approaching Storm” – “I don’t have a crystal ball or anything, but I’m expecting things to get rather ugly this Autumn, and probably even uglier in the foreseeable future,” says C.J. Hopkins in Off-Guardian
“France is sliding into medical authoritarianism” – “The French president is stamping his will on a vaccine-sceptical country,” says Josie Appleton in Spiked. “Rather than convince or persuade, he has effectively said that if you want to be a citizen, you must be vaccinated”
“Vaccine failure? Not really” – The Swiss Doctor takes a look at data from European countries which had vaccinated their senior citizens by the time the British variant hit them in spring to conclude that the vaccines were effective in preventing hospitalisation and death
“Natural infection vs vaccination: Which gives more protection?” – New numbers presented by the Israeli Health Ministry suggests that nearly 40% of Covid cases in the current wave were in people who had received the vaccination whereas just 1% of them had the infection previously, the Arutz Sheva 7 reports
“Millions in Victoria wake up to their fifth lockdown” – Melbourne has gone into another lockdown, the Daily Mail reports, after an outbreak of cases connected to a football stadium. There are growing fears that it may last longer than the planned five days
“The World’s Financial Centres Struggle Back to the Office” – Google mobility data indicates that world’s key financial centres, including London, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong, are struggling to persuade their employees to come back into the office, Bloomberg reports
“A Conversation On Fear, Altruism, and Freedom” – The latest edition of the AIER’s Author’s Corner sees Ethan Yang sits down with Lou Eastman to discuss Lou’s article exploring the psychological forces that drove the curtailment of liberty in response to COVID-19
“The War of the Noses’” – In this week’s episode of the Telegraph‘s Planet Normal podcast Professor Paul Dolan tells Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan why the Government must restore freedom in a post-vaccine world
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