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Drakeford wrong – no clear evidence restrictions led to better outcomes than England

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When announcing new restrictions in Wales from Boxing Day, Mark Drakeford misled the public when claiming the new Omicron variant was “probably that it’s just as severe as any other form would be”. There was clear evidence from other countries this was not the case, but this did not stop the First Minister from making …

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Another nonsense Ferguson prediction – 5000 Omicron deaths a day

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With the Omicron Covid-19 variant spreading across the world, Professor Neil Ferguson has suggested we could see 5,000 Omicron deaths a day unless the UK introduces tighter restrictions. So how likely is his latest prediction? Cases vs deaths There is a relationship between Covid-19 cases and deaths and if you track them through the pandemic, …

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Wales deserves its own Freedom Day and we need to accept Covid-19 is here to stay

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Since Covid-19 hit the shores of the United Kingdom back last year, it was the Prime Minister (Boris Johnson) who instigated the first national lockdown across the four nations. The Welsh Labour Government took over policies related to easing and imposing new restrictions and the data now suggests we need to learn to live with Covid-19 and have our own ‘Freedom Day’ in Wales.

Covid-19 cases rising in the young should not cause alarm to delay ‘Freedom Day’ in England again

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In the UK over the past month, we have seen a rise in Covid-19 cases which has sparked worry of a third wave of the virus. How much worry should there be? The rationale for the national lockdowns last Spring and Winter was to protect the NHS and save lives. At the start of the …

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Care home deaths – the ring of steel did not protect the vulnerable

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Since Dominic Cummings gave evidence at a House of Commons enquiry this week, pressure has been mounting on the Health Secretary in England, Matt Hancock, regarding care home deaths related to Covid-19. But what does the data tell us on what happened? The issue The criticism labelled at the UK Government is that they failed …

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