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U.K. Rights Watchdog Endorses Mandatory Covid Vaccination for Care Home Staff

The U.K.'s human rights watchdog admits that forcing care home staff to get vaccinated against Covid would be a "significant departure from current public health policy", but has endorsed the move anyway.
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Deaths at Home Rise by a Third as Patients Stay Away From Hospital

There were more deaths (from all causes) in homes in each month of 2020 than in a normal year, according to the ONS, as treatment waiting lists and the "protect the NHS" drive kept patients away from hospitals.
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What Would a Focused Protection Strategy Have Looked Like?

Lockdown Sceptics has published a new piece by Dr Noah Carl arguing that the strategy recommended in the Great Barrington Declaration – Focused Protection – would have resulted in fewer deaths than locking everybody down.
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Legal Action Launched Against Ban on Trips for Older Care Home Residents

A legal letter sent to the DHSC says that the ban on older care home residents going to see loved ones violates human rights legislation. Campaigners warn that residents are being treated like "a different species".
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Up to Two Thirds of Serious Covid Infections are Caught in Hospital – Study

Public Health Scotland finds up to two thirds of serious Covid infections are caught in hospital and people shielding are 7.6 times more likely to wind up in ICU or die. Is this why lockdowns don't work?
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