News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's 18 year-old daughter has demanded the imposition of "mask mandates" in medical facilities and called for an end to all "mask bans" in a plea to the governing body for Los Angeles County.
Long Covid is no different from the after-effects of viruses like flu and people should stop using the term, health experts have said.
Workers are putting in fewer hours than before the pandemic around the world as the number of sick days surge, according to a new global report.
Individuals receiving two COVID-19 vaccine doses may be more prone to Long Covid, a new study suggests.
SAGE modeller John Edmunds was embraced like a prodigal son when he gave evidence to the Covid Inquiry, while Carl Heneghan was treated like a rebellious adolescent. Could it be that the Inquiry is a little biased?
The risks of developing Long Covid appear to have been exaggerated by flawed research, academics have suggested in a new paper published in the BMJ.
Britain's public finances are being crippled by a steep rise in the number of people who have left the jobs market because of ill health following the lockdowns, the Office for Budget Responsibility has warned.
Covid alarmists are puzzled by new research in the Journal of the American Medical Association which found that half of young people claiming to suffer from 'Long Covid' never had COVID-19 in the first place.
Deaths continue to run at extraordinary levels – 26% above pre-pandemic levels this week. Some have argued that the timing rules out the vaccines being involved, but broader evidence indicates otherwise.
As 2022 ends, the BBC raises concern about the number of deaths and suggests what's behind them. However, ascertainment of causation requires serious work, not headline bait, write Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
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