Science found a "near non-existent" benefit of face masks, the Covid Inquiry Lead Counsel told Devi Sridhar last week. "Should this debate have been bypassed?" he asked her. "Exactly," she replied.
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As the new Covid JN.1 variant spread over the winter, an Imperial College 'expert' predicted a "major surge in infections" and called for masks to return. This prediction, like all the others, did not age well.
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Devi Sridhar's knowledge of the epidemiology of respiratory viruses could be written on the back of a postage stamp, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. Why was she a top pandemic adviser to the Scottish Government?
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Professor Devi Sridhar, the high profile adviser to then-Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, has admitted she was wrong to call for zero-Covid and the elimination of the virus.
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Sweden, having famously refused to follow the world in imposing lockdowns and mask mandates in 2020, had the best Covid pandemic record in Europe, a new analysis by the BBC shows.
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Where is the Left on Zero Covid?by Ian SinclairMorning Star9 April 2021 “There is… no credible route to a zero covid Britain or indeed a zero covid world”, Boris Johnson told the House of Commons on 22 February. “We cannot persist indefinitely with restrictions that debilitate our economy, our physical and mental well-being, and the […]
Groundhog Day: The government’s shameful response to the second COVID surgeby Ian SinclairPeace NewsDecember 2020 The UK government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been a ‘national scandal’, as I wrote in PN six months ago. (See PN 2642 – 2643) Reaching its peak in terms of infections and deaths in March and April, the virus killed an estimated […]
The coronavirus crisis: where is the British left?
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
16 June 2020
From mid-April onwards the government came under intense pressure to start lifting the lockdown it had imposed on 23 March.
“What we are going to see is cases are going to go up”: Professor Devi Sridhar on the UK’s response to coronavirus
by Ian Sinclair
19 May 2020
Professor Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, appeared on BBC Question Time on 14 May 2020. She had a number of criticisms of the UK government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak:
Burying the dead: the UK media and the government’s response to coronavirus
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
24 April 2020
On 10 April 2020, the UK government announced 980 people had died in hospital in the last 24 hours because of coronavirus. It was the country’s highest daily death toll so far.
