News Round-Up
27 April 2025
by Will Jones
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"I didn’t see a lot of other reporters at the Covid Litigation Conference." Krista Mahr, a healthcare reporter for Politico, delves into America’s growing tide of litigation over alleged harms caused by the Covid response.
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.
The pandemic has finally been declared over in Germany – but freedom will never be the same, because now we know it can be withdrawn whenever a sufficiently 'scary' virus is at large.
Read the heartbreaking and shocking story of a user of NHS mental health services, whose request not to wear a mask because they cause her panic attacks was refused, leaving her cut off from her support and suicidal.
The recent Cochrane review finding masks "probably make little or no difference" sent the mask zealots into a spin. But it seems no evidence will ever persuade them to renounce their faith in the filthy rags.
40% of Brits are still taking Covid tests and wearing masks, three years after the nation was plunged into its first lockdown, as zero-Covid fanatics call for a new mask mandate amid a rise in infections.
A Norwich City youth football coach who hit a man in the head with a metal pole for not wearing a Covid mask has been jailed.
Now is the time for action to prevent the crystallisation at international level of the very policies and approaches many of us have railed against at national level for the last three years, writes barrister Adam Cross.
Great Barrington Declaration legends Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya have written an op-ed in the New York Post calling for a 'Covid commission' to help the U.S. learn from the debacle of the last three years.
John Tierney has written an excellent article in City Journal summarising the latest Cochrane review showing masks do "approximately zero" against Covid. But the U.S. has no intention of following this science.
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