Tag: Lockdown

Nearly a quarter of all new cancer cases – one million globally – may have been missed during the Covid pandemic, a World Health Organisation study has found.

It's tremendous to see 2025 kicking off with more from the Times about the devastating effect of lockdowns on children. But we'll be waiting a long time for genuine mea culpas, says Joanna Gray, for one very simple reason.

In 2020 anyone claiming Covid was like influenza was branded a conspiracy theorist. Yet now we hear demands for masks and social distancing for flu. But asymptomatic spread is a myth for flu as well, says Dr Clare Craig.

Experts have issued an urgent call for lockdown-style social distancing ahead of Christmas Day amid surging flu infections, claiming that a fifth of those infected have no symptoms but can spread it.

The Covid "lessons learned" report from the U.S. House of Representatives is right to condemn lockdowns, says Dr. David Bell. But why then does it want to give more power to the WHO?

Five years on, it's clear that lockdowns were the greatest health economics mistake in modern history, says Martin Sewell. We would have been better off doing nothing. Next time, we should keep calm and carry on.

Working from home has made a comeback in the Civil Service since Keir Starmer's Labour came to power, with attendance at 13 Government departments falling while the private sector goes in the opposite direction.

The former boss of Waitrose, Lord Price, has blamed lockdowns for annihilating the will of many Britons to go to work. Many workers are now fixated on maximising sick pay and doing as little as possible.

Martin Kulldorff says that Jay Bhattacharya, his fellow Great Barrington Declaration author, is the right person to restore integrity to public health as he succeeds at NIH a man who branded him a "fringe epidemiologist".

Matt Hancock has admitted "do not resuscitate orders" were "wrongly applied" during Covid and should be "reviewed" – but defended lockdown and said its supporters need to "unite" to defeat sceptics.