News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
A victory in the mask wars! Two hospital providers that brought back mask mandates have backtracked and scrapped them following complaints from Daily Sceptic readers and Smile Free supporters.
Like those Japanese soldiers still fighting World War II decades later, some UK hospitals continue to mandate masks for patients and staff. When will they accept the evidence is not on their side, asks Dr Gary Sidley.
The Spanish Government has reimposed mask mandates in hospitals and health centres across the country from today, overruling most of its 17 regional authorities.
The Spanish region of Valencia has brought back the mandatory use of masks in health centres due to the rise in respiratory infections.
As some hospitals re-impose mask requirements on staff, patients and visitors, Dr Gary Sidley calls on the UKHSA to come clean about the lack of evidence and discourage their use in all clinical areas.
Women's rights campaigners and health experts today welcomed the Government's commitment to restore "common sense" in the NHS by blocking gender neutral language and men on female wards.
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.
Over 2,500 doctors, scientists and healthcare professionals are among over 10,000 people supporting an open letter calling on NHS bosses to end the mask mandates that are still in force in many U.K. hospitals.
Wearing surgical masks in a hospital made no discernible difference to reducing hospital-acquired Covid infections, a study has found, casting further doubt on masking policies deployed throughout the pandemic.
More than half of the public is unhappy with the NHS, polling shows, with a doubling in dissatisfaction in just two years, and warnings of a “tipping point” from which it is hard to recover.
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