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6/7/21

How Common Is Long Covid?

Estimates for the prevalence of long COVID range from 0.04% to 1.7%. Given all the evidence, those at the low end are more plausible, especially if we’re talking about something of clinical significance.

1/7/21

If You’re not one of the few Experts, Then You’re one of the many Functionaries

by Sinéad Murphy In another instalment of the Covid assault on the vulnerable, my little autistic boy has been sent...

17/6/21

Education Charity Finds that School Closures Hampered Students’ Learning

According to The Education Endowment Foundation, research on the impact of school closures on students’ learning "shows a consistent pattern". Students have made "less academic progress" than in previous years.

16/6/21

Night Curfew May Have Increased the Spread of COVID-19 in Greece

Many countries have imposed night curfews in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19. How successful have these measures been? According to a recent study, they may have actually increased transmission.

15/6/21

Keeping Schools Open Had Only a Minor Impact on the Spread of COVID-19 in Sweden

A recent study found that keeping schools open had only a minor impact on the spread of COVID-19 in Sweden. The results suggest that "school closure is not an effective way to contain SARS-CoV-2".

8/6/21

The Covid Aesthetic

by Sinéad Murphy In his AIER article published on June 1st, David McGrogan describes support for Western governments’ Covid measures...

8/6/21

We Should Welcome the Lab Leak Theory, Argues Biologist

In a recent article, Bret Weinstein argues that we should welcome the lab leak theory. This is because, if it turns out to be true, we know how to prevent future pandemics of this kind. Simple: ban the research.

7/6/21

Lockdowns Had a Large Negative Impact on Economic Activity in Chile

Researchers examined the impact of localised lockdowns in Chile. They found that that a three-to-four month lockdown would reduce economic activity by roughly the same amount as one year of the 2009 Great Recession.

3/6/21

Sweden’s Mortality Rate Last Year Was Lower Than in 2015

Last year, the UK's age-standardised mortality rate returned to the level of 2008. People claim it would have risen far more in the absence of lockdowns. Yet Sweden's rate only returned to the level of 2015.

2/6/21

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, the Godfather, and Dr. Fauci’s Book Tour

by Donald S. Siegel and Robert M. Sauer In 1970, Harvard economist Albert Hirschman published his classic tome, Exit, Voice,...

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