Vital coronavirus research, including a project tracking variants in India, has had its funding reduced by up to 70% under swingeing cuts to the UK overseas aid budget. One of Britain’s…
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Medieval plague scenes return to India
27 April 2021Out-door funeral pyres looking like horror scenes from medieval plagues are once again a daily feature of life for people in India, as the SARS-Cov2 plague sweeps through the country.…
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Help to commit suicide on the cards for Tasmania
16 March 2021Voluntary assisted dying is expected to be law in Tasmania by the middle of next year. A heavily amended End of Life Choices Bill was carried by 16 votes to…
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You pays your money and takes your shots
14 December 2020OUT of about 10 possible vaccines four seem to be out in front, each with their own foibles and prices per dose. When you consider the billions of people who…
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LOCKDOWN II – was it worth it?
12 December 2020We were first made aware of this irksome little bug, whizzing around Wuhan, China, 5,500 miles away, in late January, writes Erin Wilson. No big deal, many claimed — including…
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Legal challenge to Johnson’s ‘unlawful’ covid czar appointments
22 November 2020Boris Johnson and his health secretary, Matt Hancock, acted “unlawfully” when appointing three key figures – including the head of NHS Test and Trace, Dido Harding – to posts in…
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Covid deaths top 70,000 in the UK after 3,000 die in a single week
21 November 2020Today (Saturday) the Daily Mirror reported that the total number of UK Covid-19 deaths past 70,000 – nearly 16,000 more than the official death toll. The newspaper says this is…
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Coronavirus deaths shoot up to 53,775
20 November 2020The virus marches on relentlessly as this incompetent Tory government dithers and U turns while it tells one lie after another in an attempt to blame anyone and anything but…
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‘Gene within a gene’ found in SARS-CoV-2 – LiveScience excerpt
11 November 2020“The newly identified gene – called ORF3d – is an example of what’s called an overlapping gene:”
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The Trumps have Covid-19? Pardon my tinfoil hat, but…
2 October 2020“I am not entirely convinced he is being truthful here.”