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Robert Dingwall: We Need to Hold Advocates of Mask Mandates to Account
Professor Robert Dingwall has written an excellent piece for Social Science Space criticising the imposition of mask mandates. There's little evidence that masks work and the plenty of evidence they cause harm.
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Total Focus On Covid Could Mean Flu Vaccines Less Effective This Year
Flu vaccines could be less effective this year due to the total focus on Covid and the drop in global shipments of influenza surveillance samples over the past year of lockdowns.
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Dozens of Covid Test Providers to Be Removed From Gov.uk Website
More than 50 companies will be removed from the Gov.uk site that lists approved travel testing providers following reports that many are charging more than their advertised costs and are failing to hand over results.
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Another Cost-Benefit Analysis Finds That Lockdowns Weren’t Worth It
In a new paper, the economic consultant L. Jan Reid has attempted a cost-benefit analysis of lockdown in the United States. He concludes that the “cost of the lockdowns was up to ten times greater than the benefits”.
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News Round-Up
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.
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Face Masks Don’t Work Against Respiratory Viruses. So Why Did so Many Public Authorities Impose Mask Mandates?
There's an excellent piece on the Swiss Policy Research blog, aka the Swiss Doctor, trying to puzzle out why the world fell for the face mask folly, even though everyone knows masks don't work against respiratory viruses.
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New Zealand Covid Response Minister Concedes Zero-Covid Policy No Longer Viable Following Delta Outbreak
Who could've predicted this? New Zealand's COVID-19 Response Minister has acknowledged that the "zero-Covid" policy hasn't worked, as an outbreak of the Delta variant continues to spread across the country.
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Government’s Response to Pandemic is Based on Flawed Assumptions, According to 133 Healthcare Professionals
Covid19 Assembly, an anti-lockdown lobby group, has organised a powerful letter signed by 133 doctors, nurses, paramedics and midwives challenging the thinking behind the Government's response to the coronavirus crisis.
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Latest PHE Data Shows Vaccine Effectiveness Down to Just 15% in the Over-50s, 37% in the Under-50s. Deaths Cut by 76% in Over-50s, But Just 12% in Under-50s
The latest data from PHE shows vaccine effectiveness against Delta infection has dropped to just 15% in the over 50s. Protection against death is holding up – though seemingly not in the under-50s.
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The Dubious Ethics of ‘Nudging’ the Public to Comply With Covid Restrictions
We're publishing an original piece on the Daily Sceptic today by Dr Gary Sidley, a retired NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist, about the dubious ethics of 'nudging' the public to comply with Covid restrictions.
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