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The Pandemic: Millions of people in the north affected by new lockdown restrictions announced by Tweet

The Pandemic: Millions of people in the north affected by new lockdown restrictions announced by Tweet

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Starmer calls the manner of the announcement a “new low” An estimated 4m people living in large parts of the North wake up this morning to find that a new range of lockdown restrictions has been implemented. The areas covered include Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and parts of Yorkshire. The measures make it illegal in the areas covered for people from different households to meet indoors and have been brought in because of a rising number of COVID cases there. The…

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As we head into August the impact on holidays becomes the big pandemic story

As we head into August the impact on holidays becomes the big pandemic story

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Have ministers panicked? Today’s front pages give a good representation of the main pandemic stories and what the papers think are the issues most likely to impact on their readers. Once again the Daily Star manages to produce the most striking front page and that paper is to my mind having the best pandemic. So often it is taking the most eye-catching and humorous approach which is very much in the spirit of the early days of the tabloid Sun….

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Being an Anti Vaxxer is something people indulge in when they’re middle-aged

Being an Anti Vaxxer is something people indulge in when they’re middle-aged

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As you get older with your life more at stake you take a different view One of the big concerns as we get closer to getting an effective Covid19 vaccine is that there will be a significant proportion of the population who refuse to take part. The influence of disgraced ex-doctor Andrew Wakefield still runs very deep and we’ve seen how significant public health campaigns like participation in the MMR vaccine by childrens have been seriously undermined. Getting participation rates…

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The prospect of a vaccine by Christmas dominates the front pages

The prospect of a vaccine by Christmas dominates the front pages

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The Government’s each way bet on which will be available first A month ago I wrote here of the experiences of a friend of mine who had just left hospital after being struck down with Covid19 and concluded that the only way this crisis would come to an end was when a vaccine or palliative was widely available. Her story was about the sheer awfulness of gasping for breath and then the incredible joy after arriving in hospital and getting…

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What happened to England’s top nurse after she refused to back lockdown bandit Cummings

What happened to England’s top nurse after she refused to back lockdown bandit Cummings

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The story that won’t go away Even though it is getting on for two months since the Cummings lockdown breaking drive to Durham first made the headlines the story has re-emerged this afternoon with the appearance of England’s Chief Nurse, Ruth May, before the Commons public accounts committee. According to reports of this afternoon’s session there had been a trial run for her participation in the televised news conference in which she was asked about what Cummings did and she…

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It’s time to ban Americans

It’s time to ban Americans

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Voluntary, unenforced quarantine isn’t enough for high-Covid19 countries President Trump likes to congratulate himself on having closed the border to China in early February as an effective preventative measure against Covid-19. That he should do so isn’t too surprising: congratulating himself is his default setting and his administration has routinely adopted an anti-China stance, as part of Trump’s efforts to rebalance the trade deficit between the two countries. Even so, while the measure was hardly sufficient, it was at least…

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Suddenly there’s the prospect of a vaccine, perhaps even by the end of the year

Suddenly there’s the prospect of a vaccine, perhaps even by the end of the year

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It has repeatedly been said over the last five months that the only way that life can really return back to normal will be if an effective vaccine becomes available. There have been reports that more than 100 research teams around the world are working hard on the challenge and now we’ve got news about two of them. Firstly there is the Oxford vaccine which has attracted a lot of interest over the months because it was initially developed to…

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