News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
No Phones in Lavatories
5 May 2024
by Joanna Gray
The Covid Inquiry in Scotland has already spent around £10m investigating excess deaths during the pandemic. So, when are we going to have an inquiry into the even higher excess deaths now, asks Nick Rendell.
The winter death toll last year in Scotland was the worst in 30 years, the BBC reports. What, worse than during the 'pandemic'? And didn't the vaccines stop everyone dying? These questions are passed over, of course.
Heart failure deaths in 2023 are up 26% on 2020 levels, liver-related deaths are up 22% and diabetes deaths are up 19%. What's behind these worrying trends, asks Nick Rendell.
We turned society upside down for fear of excess deaths from Covid, but today we have substantially more excess deaths, and in younger people, and there is a complete silence, Andrew Bridgen tells the House of Commons.
Sir Chris Whitty has warned that thousands of middle-aged people are dying of untreated heart conditions, blaming their reluctance to burden the NHS at the heigh of the pandemic.
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