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Health and Social Affairs Editor, Sunday Express, freelancer + PR. Previously - Big Issue, Assistant Editor, Observer. lucyjohnstonuk @gmail .com

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Belgium court has ruled that use of a COVID pass is illegal and ordered the local government to pay a daily fine of €5,000 until they withdraw the measure
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Full fact:
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Breaking news 🚨 New Oxford uni study - vaccines do NOT reduce viral load for those with Delta infections. So what is the purpose of vaccine passports?
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Teresa May: “no justification for continuing lockdown”
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Investigation launched into abnormal spike in newborn baby deaths in Scotland. “None of the deaths directly linked to covid.” 21 neonatal deaths recorded in Scotland in September - highest since current records began. The Herald
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🚨 Breaking 40 p/c excess care home deaths were NOT covid, new report finds. “Without visitors to intervene vulnerable residents left to die.” “Neglect, thirst and hunger were and poss still are biggest killers.” ⁦ @collateralglbl ⁩ ⁦ @relresuk
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🚨 Breaking Deaths of more than 220 children in lockdown linked to abuse or neglect 191 serious incidents related to babies under 1 yr NSPCC: “Stark figures highlight risk vulnerable children faced trapped at home” ⁦ @rwjdingwall ⁩ ⁦⁦ @UsforThemUK ⁩ ⁦
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🚨 “We do not, when we detect new mutations in influenza, lock down borders, force pupils to wear masks and eat lunch in the freezing cold. We don’t take away jobs and ostracise those who have not taken the flu jab.” - Prof Sunetra Gupta infectious disease expert - Uni Oxford
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Are COVID deaths overemphasized?
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Thousands of protesters bring london to a standstill demanding an end to lockdowns. ⁦ @BritainFree ⁩ ⁦ @T4Recovery
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Mask mandates did NOT slow spread of covid-19 in the United States, groundbreaking CDC data shows.
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Croatia
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MP’s and scientists demand vax passports are PERMANENTLY RULED OUT claiming they are: • discriminatory • costly • won’t stop covid spread • undermine personal freedom ⁦ @T4Recovery ⁩ ⁦ @BritainFree
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“No govt should dictate when you see your family or whether you start a relationship.” “Govt should serve the people, not the other way round.” @SirGrahamBrady blasts UK’s extreme covid rules.
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Tony Blair’s claim face masks on transport can save NHS slammed “Across the world, we tried mask mandates. Germany tried FFP2…they haven’t changed the cause and nature of what happened next.” - Carl Heneghan, Director Oxford University’s Centre of Evidence Based Medicine
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🚨 100k NHS workers to quit under no jab no job “folly” Ministers privately “worried” Sir Graham Brady: “Experience of forcing care workers 2 B vaxxed - 10’s of thousands left. We’re about to repeat this folly” “Time 4 rationality now we know vax’s don’t stop transmission.”
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🚨 Sage scientist: Lockdowns an idea “concocted by China and WHO” were “flawed, highly damaging, morally wrong” and “made a bad situation worse” “Harmful restrictions imposed even when it became clear not needed at cost to lives, livelihoods and society” ⁦ @T4Recovery
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Lord Sumption on lockdown: “We have moral reasons for ... not wishing to be like China, even if it works.” “We still have a public health crisis and we now have an entirely man made economic, educational, moral and social crisis.”
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Calls for an end to mass testing. “We cannot stop spread of covid. Monitoring people with mild symptoms NOT helpful,” experts say.
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Are vested self interests stopping us reach a better understanding of COVID? Why are scientists trying to silence colleagues? Are we losing freedom of speech? ⁦ @rwjdingwall ⁩ ⁦ @SirGrahamBrady ⁩ ⁦ @EstherMcVey1 ⁩ ⁦ @UsforThemUK ⁩ ⁦ @MattHancock ⁩ ⁦
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The way ‘Covid deaths’ are being counted is a national scandal | The Spectator
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‘Dodgy data’ used in push for tighter Covid restrictions. Senior health advisor accused of disseminating “dodgy data” inflating potential risk of omicron. Dr Jenny Harries, CE of UKHSA understood be source of a contested claim. The Telegraph
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130 medics write to PM: “We can no longer stand in silence..... Repeated lockdowns based on flawed assumptions....and imposed without assessment of their harms.” ⁦ @MaidmentRos ⁩ ⁦ @toadmeister ⁩ ⁦ @T4Recovery
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Is the govt using “unethical” fear tactics to increase lockdown compliance? ⁦ @UsforThemUK ⁩ ⁦ @carlheneghan ⁩ ⁦ @GarySidley ⁩ ⁦ @PhilipDaviesUK ⁩ ⁦ @grahambradymp
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Israel to end ALL domestic covid restrictions by next week. No distancing. No masks. Health ministry began to drop covid measures after vulnerable vaccinated. What will it take in the U.K? ⁦ @rwjdingwall ⁩ ⁦ @BritainFree ⁩ ⁦ @T4Recovery ⁩ ⁦ @toadmeister
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🚨 Care home worker sacked for refusing jab on health grounds takes legal case paving the way for tens of thousands. “By telling care workers “no jab, no job” Sajid Javid could face harrassment claim.” ⁦ @pjhlaw ⁩ ⁦ @ukmfa1
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Sept 2020 - Me: “Why didn’t you lockdown like your European neighbours?” Anders Tegnell: “Lockdown is an experiment. We don’t know the long term effect of lockdowns on physical/mental health. We are following the existing science on how to respond to a novel virus.”
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22 scientists demand: “All restrictions must end on June 21st as harms too great.” “We are told we have successful vaccines yet restrictions must continue indefinitely. Both cannot be true.” ⁦⁩⁦ @jackiecassell ⁩ ⁦ @ProfKarolSikora ⁩ ⁦ @SirGrahamBrady ⁩ ⁦
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“What really astonishes me is the absolute certainty with which scientists and politicians insist that certain things work - like mask mandates… It’s clear now when you look at the data that mask mandates make no difference.” YouTube: @sketchnoteson
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“Only looking at one disease goes against the basic principles of public health.” “A woman might now die from a cervical cancer 3-4 years from now instead of living another 15-20 years.” YouTube: @gbdeclaration | @MartinKulldorff @sketchnoteson
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🚨 “Covid variants don’t warrant restrictions on our freedom. For good reason, we don’t respond with border closures and restrictions on school children every time a new influenza mutation is detected.” Prof Sunetra Gupta infectious disease expert, University of Oxford
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Hospitals have 13k FEWER patients this year. Reduced capacity is key to understanding the current crisis.
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Obsession with counting covid cases “unnecessary and harmful,” Stanford prof. “We no longer face 2020 risk.” “Mass testing form of lockdown by stealth.” “Tests should be reserved for the sick.” ⁦ @gbdeclaration ⁩ ⁦ @MartinKulldorff ⁩ ⁦
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Masks increase risk of covid-19 study suggests.
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Has the U.K. become a totalitarian state?
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“Psychological weapons used to gain lockdown compliance must now be used to reverse mental health probs and covid related anxiety if society is to function again,” say experts. ⁦ @BareReality ⁩ ⁦ @GarySidley ⁩ ⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦ @UsforThemUK
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100k cancer patients “displaced” by covid measures - double Govt figs Many dead, or more deadly disease 2 wk cancer wait worst on record “You cannot catch up with cancer unless you have a time machine” ⁦ @SullivanProf ⁩ ⁦ @RTherapy4Life ⁩ ⁦ @ProfKarolSikora
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“I’m not anti vax..I’ve taken pretty much every vax available..This one I decided not enough safety data. “Being punished for saying wrong thing = dangerous path.” Matt Le Tissier tells podcast how he was vilified for speaking out ⁦ @mattletiss7
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Huge rise in children hospitalised for mental illness during pandemic. Did we properly consider the ethics of repeated lockdowns? ⁦ @rwjdingwall ⁩ ⁦ @lensiseethrough ⁩ ⁦ @UsforThemUK ⁩ ⁦ @YoungMindsUK
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“No 4th jab til more evidence,” Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, head of Britain's vaccine body says. “Giving boosters every six months not sustainable.” “We need to target vulnerable” rather than boosters to all over-12s.”
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Covid response team disappeared with plaudits + knighthoods Where are the briefings for 100’s k’s missed cancer, heart probs, strokes, diabetes? 1,000 non-covid XS deaths / week? Who is accountable for problems we now face for following “the science” ?
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Ministers failed to provide proper evidence to justify their decision to require all frontline NHS staff to get vaccinated, a Lords committee says today.
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‘Some Covid restrictions were “idiocy” and lengthy school closures were an "unnecessary mistake”, Germany's lockdown chief has admitted’
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“It’s now time for the UK to go back to normal.” “This virus will never go away. It will be endemic just like the 4 other common coronaviruses that we have lived with for at least 100 years” Podcast: @gbdeclaration | @MartinKulldorff | @sketchnoteson
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Nhs doctors had advice on treating clots linked to vaccines before public alert. Is the Govt being completely transparent?
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Omicron: Is racism why South African evidence of milder infection was ignored? S Africa's prominent covid experts say Western scepticism about their work could be construed as "racist," or a refusal "to believe the science because it came from Africa".
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Negative Covid tests are now being accepted as an alternative to vaccine passports in Scotland. As long as people have proof of this on a text or email they can get into clubs, concerts or large events, first Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced.
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🚨Breaking Facebook urged to act over incompetent “fact check” of BMJ Pfizer vax trial investigation showing poor clinical practice and patient safety concerns. Zuckerberg told to correct “inaccurate, incompetent and irresponsible,” fact checking.
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Why are pupils wearing masks all day when we have never trialled the benefits vs harms? @carlheneghan says this is true of many lockdown measures @UsforThemUK @UsForThemScotl1 @lensiseethrough @thatsmanderley @CebmOxford @rwjdingwall @EstherMcVey1 @DrAseemMalhotra
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Mass Covid screening is an obscene waste of scant resources and politicians need to get their head round “the real world” says leading cancer professor.
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Gov plans to rollout jabs for 12-15’s: “I cannot see how legal / ethical standards can be met.” “As a former jcvi member I would sleep better knowing I did my duty to nations children.” “Decision should NOT be based on harms of gov school policy.” ⁦ @UsforThemUK ⁩ ⁦
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🚨 Experts baffled by worrying rise in cancer cases in under 50’s ‘Cannot be explained by diet or genetics’
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🚨 80 pc of pupils suffering “severe long term” mental health problems due to school closures/lockdowns. Why was there no cost/benefit analysis of lockdown measures on children? ⁦⁦ @UsforThemUK ⁩ ⁦ @collateralglbl
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Tens of thousands lockdown protesters: “lockdown has cost our right to travel, work and protest.” “The attempt to ban protest is an essential part of our social contract.” “I’m standing up for the freedoms of our children.” ⁦ @BritainFree ⁩ ⁦ @T4Recovery
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🚨 Next week’s “no jab no job” deadline for care workers “will create a crisis in social care.” 63k care staff not vaccinated 13,000 have already left ⁦ @ProfMartinGreen ⁩ ⁦ @careuk
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🚨 COVID COLLATERAL 1.5 mill young with new or worse mental ill health = to 18 Wembley stadiums 2,000 kids a day referred to mental health services 2-yr waits for treatment “lockdown tipped people into anxiety, eating disorders + other MH problems.” ⁦ @YoungMindsUK
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govt said school return a “joy”. My normally happy daughter says kids heads downcast, classmates look depressed / fun kicked out due to mask wearing, social distancing (even outdoors). With lack of good evidence for these measures are we doing more harm than good? @UsforThemUK
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Govt’s “grossly unethical” use of “nudge unit” inflated public covid fear psychologists say - MPs to launch an investigation into scare adverts. Parliament’s Public Admin and Constit Affairs Cttee, warned nudge tactics “unaccountable and unethical”
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🚨 Where are the TV briefings and experts now country is left to pick up the pieces? More than 1k excess non covid deaths / week Record waiting lists Eye watering debt 100’s of thousands missed cancers, heart disease, strokes diabetes ⁦⁦⁦ @collateralglbl
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Scaremongering over variants “becoming a bit ridiculous” trying to stop them “like king Canute trying to hold back the tide.” Are COVID mutations being used for “project fear”? ⁦ @rwjdingwall ⁩ ⁦ @BallouxFrancois ⁩ ⁦⁦ @SirGrahamBrady ⁩ ⁦ @Mark_J_Harper
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Real world (not modelling) UKHSA data on Omicron. Omicron NOT doubling every two days, as it was a week ago...... Now decreasing in London and elsewhere....
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A year after the Sunday Express first reported covid, top govt expert demands an end to the “policy of fear” ⁦ @rwjdingwall ⁩ ⁦ @ProfETownsend ⁩ ⁦⁦ @GarySidley
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Doctor to health minister: “Masking, social distancing, mass asymptomatic screening with a PCR test at a cycle threshold way too high, QR codes, hand sanitisers, lockdowns, Perspex partitions, the vaccine - long known to not stop the spread of a covid.”
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🚨 Mandating covid vaccines with have “catastrophic” impact on maternity services Govt warned by Royal College of Midwives ⁦ @MidwivesRCM
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2,000 needless lung cancer deaths amid fears patients being misdiagnosed with COVID ⁦ @ProfKarolSikora ⁩ ⁦ @ProfWishart ⁩ ⁦ @RTherapy4Life ⁩ ⁦ @SullivanProf
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“Mask mandates have failed to stop infections on an epic level.” “Masks increase fear. People stay away from each other. This only stores up problems for the future.”
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Harvard Epidemiologist Says the Case for COVID Vaccine Passports Was Just Demolished
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🚨 Breaking Doctors, scientists, MP’s tell JCVI “reassess” Covid jabs to 'low risk' children New evidence ⬆️ heart inflammation / side effect + ⬆️ natural immunity among kids + Poor record of vax vs omicron infection “Reassess rollout to kids!”
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🚨 “No jab, no job” care worker policy “playing catastrophic risks with the most vulnerable.” Up to 70k care workers will leave forcing: staff shortages home closures hosp bed blocking Why? ⁦ ⁦ @rosaltmann ⁩ ⁦ @davidjthunder ⁩ ⁦ @pjhlaw ⁩ ⁦ @ukmfa1
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“No govt should dictate when you see your family or whether you start a relationship.” “Govt to serve the people, not the other way round.” Sir Graham Brady blasts UK’s extreme covid rules. @SirGrahamBrady
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🚨 Excess non-covid deaths almost at pandemic 2020 levels Why is there radio silence from government? ⁦ @DrCharlesL ⁩ ⁦ @carlheneghan
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🚨 Hospital beds slashed in “dangerous” move raising WINTER LOCKDOWN fears. Why are we losing hospital beds @ time of unprecedented need? “Another lockdown would be unforgivable.” ⁦ @EstherMcVey1 ⁩ ⁦ @carlheneghan ⁩ ⁦ @BritainFree
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“I think it’s completely unnecessary to give the COVID vaccine to people under 30 and children… What we should be doing as global citizens is using these vaccines to protect the vulnerable.” YouTube: @gbdeclaration | @sketchnoteson | @collateralglbl
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Model predicting 75k deaths by May “designed to railroad politicians into restrictions... “ “Covid will be with us for years. Variants from time to time. Unsustainable to deal with endemic virus with restrictions.” “How can we follow modelling consistently shown to be wrong?”
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