“We must urgently invest in mental health” – Young people suffering from the effects of lockdown are in dire of need proper support, writes Stephen Fry in the Telegraph.
“NHS bosses fear Rishi Sunak will leave them billions short” – NHS leaders fear that Rishi Sunak is offering them £5 billion less than they need to deal with Covid next year and have warned of a “frighteningly large” shortfall, reports the Times.
“The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights” – “Understanding human nature will enhance our ability to address the aftermath of Covid, as it has disrupted so many of our fundamental human activities,” write the authors of a new paper published in PNAS.
“Look her in the eyes” – “How much did we spend on the policies intended to prevent death from Covid, and how does it compare to the amount we usually spend preventing death,” asks Richard Lyon in his latest substack update.
“Covid Vaccines and the Delta Variant” – “Government agencies should be studying North Dakota to see what they are doing right and Hawaii to see what they are doing wrong, because the answers are not vaccination rates,” writes Gilbert G. Berdine in AIER.
“Where lockdown is a fairytale” – In Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, hostages are happy, writes Suzannah Lipscomb in UnHerd.
“Judge orders Ohio hospital to treat Covid patient with Ivermectin” – Desperate to save her husband’s life, Julie Smith appealed to Butler County Common Pleas asking for a judge to order staff at the hospital where her husband is ventilated to try it on him, reports MailOnline.
“A widely shared study on ivermectin might be wrong” – “I don’t know whether ivermectin is effective for preventing or treating Covid. But this study doesn’t provide strong evidence that it is,” writes Noah Carl in his latest substack update.
“Extinction Rebellion gets to protest while Covid goes on holiday” – “Their concept of law and order does not exist to ensure stability by providing fairness and an accepted arena in which to play politics, but in the friend/enemy distinction,” writes Luke Perry in Bournbrook Magazine.
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