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Counting the Dead
How many have died of COVID-19? Counting deaths is straightforward when a pathogen kills the healthy, as with ebola or plague. It’s not so easy when a pathogen primarily endangers the frail.
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Vaccine Effectiveness Hits as Low as Minus 300% – as UKHSA Announces it Will No Longer Publish the Data
Worrying trends continue in the latest vaccine data from UKHSA, including vaccine effectiveness as low as minus 300%. Disappointingly, but perhaps inevitably, UKHSA has announced it will no longer be publishing them.
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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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Parents Can Sign Children as Young as Five Up for Covid Vaccination Within Weeks
Parents will be able to sign up for jabs for their five to 11 year-olds within weeks amid a rise in Covid infections. But do the risks outweigh the benefits?
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The Importance of Questioning Western Foreign Policy
Supplying arms to Ukraine *may* work, but we shouldn’t just assume it’s the right policy. The best thing the West can do is pressure both sides to negotiate, in the hope of a reaching some kind of settlement.
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Covid Deaths “Impossible to Calculate” as Authorities Used 14 Different Definitions, Say Oxford Researchers
The number of deaths from Covid in the UK during the pandemic is impossible to determine because of the inconsistent definitions of what is meant by a coronavirus death, according to Oxford researchers.
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New York City Health Commissioner Orders Under-Fives to be Masked Forever
New York City's new Health Commissioner has caused anger after announcing that children aged five and under should wear face masks indefinitely, bucking the national trend of ditching masks.
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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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The Countries That, Like the U.K., Have Ditched Covid Travel Rules
As the UK ends its remaining Covid travel rules and restrictions, here are other countries that got there first and to where UK citizens can now travel in the normal pre-pandemic way.
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Does a ‘Great Disappointment’ Await The Climate Zealots?
No matter what climate change scares have been debunked, the movement goes from strength to strength – resembling religious movements where disappointment leads to greater fervour. But will it eventually collapse?
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