Not seeing loved ones at least once a month and living alone significantly increases people’s risk of dying, academics at the University of Glasgow have found. Does this help explain pandemic deaths?
Care home residents were "neglected and left to starve" during the pandemic, lawyers representing bereaved relatives have told Scotland’s Covid inquiry.
At the U.K. Covid Inquiry last week the Lead Counsel, Hugo Keith KC, claimed Covid would have grown "exponentially" without lockdown while the British Medical Association called for earlier, harder restrictions.
The "carnage" in care homes as Covid hit and the vulnerable elderly were hastily discharged from hospital and isolated from proper care is laid bare in a new study.
The New York Times has published an angry article blaming Ron DeSantis for the "steep cost" of his Covid response, despite having to admit Florida did better than the rest of the country.
A lobby group of healthcare workers has warned against the decision to remove face mask guidance in healthcare settings, saying withdrawing it is "playing Russian roulette" with people's welfare.
Is the trouble with British democracy that it produces politicians as dysfunctional as Matt Hancock, or that it gives politicians so much power in the first place?
The Lockdown Files continue to bring out scandalous revelations about how pandemic management by WhatsApp was conducted. Here are some of the top stories from Wednesday.
The Scottish Government has misrepresented its own mask guidance in a 'fact check' by falsely denying it now recognises masks are harmful, when the guidance clearly states it is balancing mask harms against Covid harms.
The Scottish Government has finally accepted that mask-wearing is harmful following a campaign that led to the end of the mask recommendation in care homes.
