The latest data shows 23% of Covid deaths have another underlying cause. Last year the figure was 8%. Yet in NI it was 38%. And a Swedish review put it as high as 85%. How many Covid deaths are really from COVID-19?
A new study confirms the benefits of cheap asthma drug Budesonide against Covid for the high-risk. But is it as good as earlier reports suggested?
The last month has seen more suicides on the Humber Bridge than normally happen in a whole year. Many were young people. The lockdowns are taking their toll on mental health.
Has Boris lost his faith in the vaccines? That's certainly the impression you'd get from what he has said this morning. But he is wrong to claim that infections have fallen mainly because of the lockdown.
Now is the time to return to normal, just as a number of states in America have done and seen no catastrophe. It is not the time to think we can create a 100% effective barrier against a seasonal respiratory disease.
An Oxford University study has confirmed the remarkable effectiveness of common asthma treatment Budesonide for treating COVID-19, reducing the risk of serious disease by 90% if taken at an early stage.
Professor Denis Rancourt, whose paper reviewing research on the harms of masks had been viewed more than 200,000 times, has been banned from academic publishing site ResearchGate for discouraging the use of masks.
The latest cautionary tale being held up to locked down Britons as the reason we can't be released is Chile, where an ambitious vaccination programme has not prevented a new surge. But is all as it seems?
Imperial advocates that masks, Test & Trace and social distancing remain indefinitely. They mention no end date. They want to make this a new normal that lasts forever. This is typical out-of-touch behaviour from SAGE.
While go-slow BoJo talks about vaccine passports and keeping masks and social distancing in place for another year, this was the scene in Texas today. A packed stadium, no vaccine passport required, not a mask in sight.
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