Wearing a face mask results in exposure to dangerous concentrations of carbon dioxide in inhaled air, even when the mask is worn for just five minutes when sitting still, a study has found.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
A team of Chinese and US researchers has predicted over 1.5 million deaths in China from Omicron should the country cease to impose its brutal controls. But that is less than half the UK Covid death rate.
MP Sir Christopher Chope tells the Government that being in denial about vaccine damage is undermining the very vaccine confidence which the Government has been trying to promote.
Face masks will no longer be mandatory in airports and on flights in Europe from May 16th amid the easing of coronavirus restrictions in European countries.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
The UK relied too much on "very scary" SAGE models to decide on lockdowns, according to the man behind some of those very projections who repeatedly called for longer lockdowns.
Many are concerned that the US amendments to the WHO pandemic treaty will transfer sovereignty over public health policy to an unelected and unaccountable global organisation. How worried should we be?
Shanghai officials over the next few days will further restrict access to food and hospitals in the city, the most severe phase of its extended lockdown yet, as China digs in with its Zero Covid strategy.
Public satisfaction with family doctors in Scotland has plummeted to a record low since the first lockdown when they began to refuse to see patients in person, a study has found.
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