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Nearly 4 years after the start of the Covid pandemic, key scientific & policy questions remain unanswered.
Watch Collateral Global’s new video to learn more about our plans to answer these questions in 2024.
CG is a unique research institute and educational charity dedicated to learning the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, we are concerned about the social harms of Covid policies and the politicisation of science.
We support independent research that engages the totality of evidence and challenges persistent assumptions and misconceptions.
Our mission is to help ensure that future pandemic policy responses are evidence-based and balance societal trade-offs to maximise the health and well-being of all people.
Learn more about our work on our website:
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“On September 3rd, 2020, my 88 year old father entered a rehab hospital. The COVID policy was no visitors - not even family.
For 2 months he languished there, alone, as he said on many phonecalls, "staring at the wall." I could hear the light leave his voice over the weeks when we spoke. My sisters and I vowed to be there the second they allowed it.
On November 5th, I got the phonecall that he had died. Alone. No family to hold his hand, comfort him, tell him they loved him. This man, full of life and humor, intelligence and wit, who had led a wonderful life- deserved more, and I'll never get to say goodbye.”
Read the full story here collateralglobal.org/covid-s…
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"'Herd immunity' probably takes the prize for being the most misunderstood term of 2020. It is also widely misused to mean the willful culling of vulnerable people."
-Professor Sunetra Gupta, in a Collateral Global mini-lecture and essay on herd immunity
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'I think that it is the first duty of any government in dealing with any issue whatever is objectivity and truth. There are no circumstances in which I would accept it is legitimate for governments to lie'
Lord Sumption in Conversation - watch in full.
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More children admitted to hospital for mental health than medical reasons, leading pediatrician says
President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health says this has been a phenomenon since the start of the pandemic
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Covid deaths impossible to calculate as authorities used 14 different ways to record them.
NEW Report from @collateralglbl @carlheneghan @JRBtrip et al
Exclusive from @sarahknapton @Telegraph
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“In developing countries the Lockdowns have had absolutely devastating effects
100 million additional people thrown into poverty.” @DrJBhattacharya
Help us find out what’s really going on :
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Did flawed tests convince us Covid was worse than it really was? | Daily Mail Online
The Collateral Global report found there were huge variations in the methods being used to conduct PCR tests at labs across the country. dailymail.co.uk/health/artic…
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Is it likely that new #variants will cause more disease and death?
Professor Gupta explains why this is very unlikely.
#ScienceUnlocked #CG
Full mini lecture available here - collateralglobal.org/article…
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Important New Study.
Effects of lockdown on COVID-19.
This meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. @steve_hanke
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/fi…
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CG EXCLUSIVE YOUTUBE PREMIERE & LIVE Q&A
Professor John Ioannidis and @DrJBhattacharya
*WED 9TH MARCH 20:00 GMT, 15:00 EST, 12:00 PST*
"It's really a shame that we let that happen, that we just lost the perspective of what really matters"
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“Herd immunity probably takes the prize for being the most misunderstood term of 2020,”.
Professor @SunetraGupta on Collateral Global’s new YouTube channel.
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"To make it a criminal offence to associate with other human beings is a profoundly destructive thing to do...[Covid] is a pandemic well within the range of disasters that human societies have learned to cope with over many centuries."
-Lord Sumption
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Covid lockdown: Children as young as eight self-harming, doctor says - BBC News bbc.com/news/uk-england-leed…
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NEW CG Mini Lecture – #Variants.
“How scared should we be of new variants of the COVID-19 virus?”
Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the role of variants in COVID-19.
For the full 5 min video & explainer, click here:
collateralglobal.org/article…
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Babies born during the pandemic have experienced delayed development and may have fallen behind because of mothers' stress, a new study has suggested. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01…
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"The isolation experienced by special-needs individuals, like that visited upon so many of society’s vulnerable through pandemic restrictions, receives little attention because those touched by it are unable to speak effectively for themselves."
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“Daily Covid statistics demanded the nation’s attention, yet these terrifying figures barely get a look in. A full and urgent government investigation is required immediately.”
@DrCharlesL
@sarahknapton
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"I was in tears. I tried to pull my face mask down as I was really upset, and having asthma makes face masks uncomfortable for me already. But the doctor was having none of it and told me to pull it back up over my mouth and nose. "
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"It was obvious at the outset that many of the proposed interventions to mitigate the spread of Covid would have severely detrimental effects." @SunetraGupta
@Telegraph @collateralglbl
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Herd immunity is a continuous variable that increases as people become immune & decreases as they lose immunity.
Watch this CG mini-lecture on herd immunity & it's its relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic.
@SunetraGupta
Full lecture available here: loom.ly/ByFqMmM
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Once you have one politician take a very aggressive stance, going for a very aggressive lockdown then, every other politician will say
"well if I don't do that they will tell me that I didn't do enough".
Watch the whole interview here: loom.ly/tvZSyJw
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“In December, 2020, I got a call late at night. Mum was going to palliative care. Her thyroid cancer came back very aggressively and she just had days to live. I made the split decision to get on a plane and fly back from Phoenix, Arizona to The Gold Coast, Australia.
The bureaucratic and logistical nightmare of getting to the Gold Coast, Australia from Sydney to say goodbye to Mum was horrendous.
I got a special exemption to see her before beginning my 14 days in hotel quarantine. Multiple PCR tests and 3 days later they let me see her.
The staff at the hospital told me to socially distance from my beloved and dying Mum in ridiculous protective clothing and said not to touch her, was I supposed to remain compliant? I held her and talked to her. I was given 2 hours to spend with my Mum. The inhumanity of this experience was treacherous and I felt like was treated worse than a criminal.”
Read the full story here collateralglobal.org/covid-s…
Then add your own story here collateralglobal.org/covid-s…
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Meet the CG team @profpauldolan
"There’s no such thing as a free lunch.Right?
You can’t have something for nothing.
The measures that we put in place, could well have been worth it, but they undoubtedly come at a cost.
So where the f*ck were people measuring those costs?
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1. It is illogical, as well as unethical, to close borders on account of the detection of a new variant.
@SunetraGupta
Watch in full: collateralglobal.org/article…
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Two years of lockdowns, distancing and homeschooling have harmed our children’s education – and questions remain about how they can catch up. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03…
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Herd Immunity mini-lecture - Part 2/6
Prof Gupta explains the role of acquired herd immunity in protecting the elderly from severe disease & death - not just from COVID-19, but from *all* coronaviruses.
For the full 6 min video & explainer, click here: collateralglobal.org/article…
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It is not locking down earlier that would have saved lives but rather instituting focused protection immediately that could have averted deaths associated with Covid-19.
@SunetraGupta @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04…
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"Anthony Fauci is finally facing his reckoning"
"The ex-NIAID director struggled to answer Congress’s questions this week."
“Dr. Fauci’s transcribed interview revealed systemic failures in our public health system and shed light on serious procedural concerns with our public health authority… dissenting opinions were often not considered or suppressed completely.”
Read the full article by
@kevinbardosh
Director of research, Collateral Global here:
collateralglobal.org/article…
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Listen to the heart-breaking story of a daughter who couldn’t be by her 97-year-old mothers’ side due to hospital mandates when she passed away.
collateralglobal.org/covid-s…
Please add your own story here: collateralglobal.org/covid-s…
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"I find myself disturbed by ableist thinking of mask advocates that these are a low cost, low harm intervention."
"For a very significant proportion of the population they aren't."
@rwjdingwall on why masks can be harmful to 15-20% of the population: loom.ly/bWcaBbQ
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A New Idea.
Funding by countless small donations would send an incredibly powerful message about why this work is important and - more importantly - who it’s important to.
Because the answer is, ‘All of us’.
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There is no such thing as simply “following the science” and there never was. There are many different scientific disciplines, practices, methods, theories......
What, exactly, are we supposed to be following?
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“In March, we will mark two years of COVID-19-related disruptions to global education. Quite simply, we are looking at a nearly insurmountable scale of loss to children’s schooling,”
Robert Jenkins, UNICEF Chief of Education. unicef.org/press-releases/co…
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What I have seen is an extrordinary pressure, if you disagreed with the consensus, to stay silent.
@DrJBhattacharya
#reopen #reconnect
Watch CG team film in full : loom.ly/-DJw0qw
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A recent study led by Oxford academics, which found that up to a third of people found positive on a PCR test were not contagious, should give the Government cause to reconsider the wisdom of this approach.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02…
Read: CG report 7 : collateralglobal.org/article…
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Those waiting for more than a year for an operation has risen to almost 388,000 compared to 1,600 before the pandemic began, NHS statistics shows. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no…
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"There is no proper evidence that 375,000 deaths have been prevented by lockdown."
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Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that England and Wales registered 20,823 more deaths than the five-year average in the past 18 weeks. Only 11,531 deaths involved Covid.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11…
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Collateral Global has developed a webapp that allows anyone to tell the world how the Covid responses, restrictions and mandates impacted them.
Stories are published and pinned on an interactive map so people around the world can read them.
The webapp is in its infancy, but we hope that in time hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of people will add their stories – like this one collateralglobal.org/covid-s…
The webapp is accessible from any device, from any country and is free to use. Click here to visit the web app collateralglobal.org/covid-s…
We would also like to ask you to forward this link to your friends and family and ask them to also add their story.
Our webapp provides everyone a way to tell the world how they have been impacted over the past 3 years. Together, we can also build a clearer picture of the impacts of the Covid responses, restrictions and mandates.
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Today's interview with @talkradio.
Welcome news from PM, @BorisJohnson, as he announces a full covid public enquiry.
Also in discussion was the Collateral Global initiative, our aims and research objectives.
@collateralglbl @talkRADIO @JuliaHB1 @SunetraGupta
Epidemiologist Prof Sunetra Gupta welcomes news that an independent inquiry will examine the government’s handling of the pandemic.
“There was a religious belief that lockdowns and facemasks work. Let’s look at the costs of these strategies."
@JuliaHB1 | @SunetraGupta
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'Deaths in Scotland have been above average for months despite the decline in C-19 as more people die at home of heart attacks, strokes and substance abuse'
'the collateral damage of lockdown is becoming clear in the official statistics.'
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Professor Jay Bhattacharya and Lord Sumption discuss the legal, ethical, and political implications of COVID-19 policy responses.
@DrJBhattacharya
Watch here on CG's YouTube Channel: loom.ly/3Po86j8
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“Four days after we wrote The Great Barrington Declaration, the head of the National Institute of Health, an agency from whom I've received funding for most of my career, a man named Francis Collins, whom I've long admired for his scientific brilliance, also for his faith, he wrote an email to Tony Fauci, calling me, Martin and Sunetra fringe epidemiologists, and he engaged in a media campaign to conduct a devastating takedown.”
“Media hit pieces flooded the airwaves alleging that the three of us wanted to let the virus rip and to kill people, to kill people kill grandma.”
“He went after us for the crime of advocating that we better protect older people from the virus and to allow kids to go to school.”
“This was an abuse of power by Francis Collins. As head of the National Institute of Health his agency controls the funding and professional standing of nearly every Biomedical Scientist of note in the United States and many worldwide.”
“When Collins directed his devastating takedown of the Great Barrington Declaration, he sent an unmistakable signal to other scientists and epidemiologists - fall in line with his lockdown policy or face excommunication from the scientific community.”
Watch the full speech delivered by 2024 Bradley Prize winner Dr. Jay Bhattacharya at the 20th Annual Bradley Prize Ceremony in Washington, DC on May 21, 2024 here:
piped.video/watch?v=T_Fu4QNv…
@KevinBardosh
@DrJBhattacharya
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"Sweden didn't bring in lockdowns. They stuck to their guns and got through this pandemic far far better."
Understand more by listening to the latest podcast 'Did Covid-19 restrictions break British society?' here: loom.ly/XbDQYbY
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Children are a lost tribe in the pandemic. While they remain (for the most part) perplexingly immune to the health consequences of Covid-19, their lives and daily routines have been turned upside down.
loom.ly/QhneXyU #children #lockdown #totalharms #selfharm
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Herd immunity mini-lecture - Part 5/5
In this clip, Professor Gupta uses the analogy of water flowing into a cistern to explain how herd immunity is maintained within the population.
For the full 6 min video & explainer, click here:collateralglobal.org/article…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an inflation in acute cardiovascular deaths, nearly half of which occurred in the community and most did not relate to COVID-19 infection. #cardiovascular #covid19 #totalharms
collateralglobal.org/cardio heart.bmj.com/content/early/…
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A risk-free life is impossible, especially amid a pandemic – and undesirable.
Every choice we face involves trading off one risk for another.
@DrJBhattacharya for @collateralglbl collateralglobal.org/article…
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Collateral Global is excited to officially launch our Covid Stories webapp.
The web app is designed to allow you to tell the world how the global Covid responses, restrictions and mandates have impacted you personally.
For more info click here: loom.ly/HgpvIdA
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“I don’t know what a classroom looks like – I’ve never seen one.”
Seven-year-old Kylie Larrobis said, complaining she cannot read after a year of online kindergarten in the tiny slum apartment in Manila she shares with six people.
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Elderly man's escape attempt from care home Covid lockdown using bedsheets ends in tragedy
Mario Finotti, 91, died after he tied bedsheets around his waist and clambered out of the window in northern Italy telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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'Inhumane and Barbaric'
Jane Smith talks frankly about her fight to see and care for her mum during the COVID-19 pandemic, and her own mental health struggles which have resulted from their forced separation.
@judo_jane
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CG REPORT 7:
PCR Testing in the UK During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic – Evidence From FOI Requests
'The current system requires significant
changes to ensure it offers accurate diagnostic data to enable effective clinical management of
SARS-CoV-2.'
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NEW CG REPORT
'This CG report shows that in rich countries under-resourcing of nursing homes and shoddy care long before COVID appeared led to our elderly dying in significantly higher numbers in homes compared to the community.'
Prof. Tom Jefferson.
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Why is #HerdImmunity so misunderstood?
"'Herd immunity' probably takes the prize for being the most misunderstood term of 2020. It is also widely misused to mean the willful culling of vulnerable people."
-Professor Sunetra Gupta, in a Collateral Global mini-lecture and essay on herd immunity
collateralglobal.org/article…
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“A systematic review is what we consider the highest level of evidence to understand a question and find an answer… and it stops you cherry picking which many have done throughout the pandemic to suit either side of the argument.”
Watch in full : loom.ly/5OV_bh0
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Cancer Research UK, Britain’s largest funder of oncology research, is predicting a £300m fall in income over three years because the pandemic has hit charitable giving hard. Researchers estimate that 18 months of progress has been lost. ft.com/content/8ddf854a-b377…
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The isolation experienced by special-needs individuals, like that visited upon so many of society’s vulnerable through pandemic restrictions, receives little attention because those touched by it are unable to speak effectively for themselves.
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"It appears that the scientific community is finally acknowledging that any infection-blocking properties of naturally-acquired or vaccine-induced immunity are incomplete and transient...."
@sunetragupta @profpauldolan
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Recorded December 2020. @SunetraGupta
"When this new coronavirus arrived it encountered a population where there was no immunity to this new virus, other than that which accumulates from exposure to the other coronavirus already in circulation."
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"If the Covid Inquiry truly cares about the plight of the younger generation, it should be prepared to consider the option of immediately instituting focused protection, instead of being wedded to the notion that a rapid lockdown was the correct course."
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Collateral Global ?
At Collateral Global, we believe that there is an urgent need to study the consequences of public health measures implemented in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, including the second and third-order effects.
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According to WHO’s latest World malaria report, there were an estimated 241 million malaria cases and 627 000 malaria deaths worldwide in 2020. This represents about 14 million more cases in 2020 compared to 2019, and 69 000 more deaths..
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"A looming crisis of children suffering abuse, neglect and poverty has been exposed, with growing numbers of young people taken into care in some of England’s most deprived communities during the pandemic."
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Children were not socialising with each other as much because of communication problems, lacked confidence and were shy and anxious with babies in particular not used to seeing different faces. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04…
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"Save the children did a report from 47 countries that showed, wherever you are in the world most mental health problems literally doubled.
if these rates are maintained over the next few years we have serious problems."
YT : loom.ly/azMNN1c
@selfharmres @carlheneghan
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Lockdowns crush mental health and wellbeing in young people
Researchers Ellen Townsend and Matthew Owens discuss the findings of their new study on elevated levels of depression in university students.
@selfharmres & Dr Matthew Owens for @collateralglbl
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More than 200,000 pupils will move from primary school to secondary school this autumn without being able to read properly, according to unpublished government figures. thetimes.co.uk/article/boris…
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Once you have one politician take a very aggressive stance, going for a very aggressive lockdown then, every other politician will say
"well if I don't do that they will tell me that I didn't do enough".
Watch the whole interview here: loom.ly/tvZSyJw
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The new @collateralglbl website has launched today.
We invite everyone to get involved with this project.
We are committed to analysing, assessing & communicating to all with clarity, compassion and objectivity.
#CollateralCosts #YouMatter
collateralglobal.org
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"Our year group had the most cases so for two weeks they made us sit facing the wall at lunch and break and we weren't allowed to turn our heads
I know the teachers were unhappy too and I felt horrible knowing I was scaring them so much but instead of helping each other we were just shouting at each other.
But this is what every day was like for two years, except for when we were in lockdown again. I don't remember much of the next lockdown because it's just a numb, lonely blur."
Read the full story at collateralglobal.org/covid-s…
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Editor-in-Chief, Jay Bhattacharya and Lord Sumption discuss the legal, ethical, and political implications of COVID-19 policy responses.
@DrJBhattacharya
Watch here on CG's new YouTube Channel CG TV : loom.ly/3Po86j8
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Alongside the critical importance of education itself, schools are also critical for students' mental health, safeguarding and - in many cases - as the providers of the child's only full meal of the day. telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
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The important thing to remember is that both natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity are very likely to protect us from severe disease and death, regardless of which variant dominates at any given time.
@SunetraGupta @collateralglbl June 21
Watch : loom.ly/75ToSjE
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“Shouldn’t we have put one third of our resources into care homes?
More nurses, more clinical visits and better quality of care can all reduce mortality.
Have we done that? No.”
@carlheneghan @judo_jane @BunterDawn spiked-online.com/2022/01/17…
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"CDC goes it alone with universal Covid booster recommendation"
"Earlier this week a US CDC panel of advisers voted 13-1 to recommend new Covid vaccine boosters for all people over 6 months of age, contradicting European and WHO guidelines that focus on high-risk groups."
"A marketing campaign accompanied the US decision. Dr. Ashish Jha, previous White House Covid coordinator, claimed that the new booster shot will help those jabbed stay in school or work, slow transmission to Grandma, and prevent long Covid, calling the decision “a no-brainer”. A press conference with senior Canadian public health authorities, socially distanced with masks, also promoted the new universal booster recommendation."
"In contrast, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo came under fire from Politico, the Washington Post and others for contradicting the new CDC and FDA’s universal recommendation. Ladapo claimed that “with the amount of immunity that’s in the community […] and with the questions we have about safety and about effectiveness”, the vaccine would not be “a good decision for young people and for people who are not at high risk at this point in the pandemic”."
"Yet DeSantis’s stance echoes those from other countries, such as the UK and Sweden, that have recently removed universal recommendations for the 2023-24 season for those under 65 years old. Eligibility extends to being in a clinical risk group, being a frontline healthcare worker or a household contact of a high-risk person."
"While Covid vaccine mandates have largely been removed in the US, they continue in an estimated 7% of US universities, as well as some healthcare facilities and workplaces. Universal recommendations may provide justification for maintaining or expanding them this autumn."
Read the full article by
@kevinbardosh
Director of research, Collateral Global here:
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A new health crisis emerges.
Thousands of excess (Non-COVID) deaths have been reported over the summer.
Possible explanations include
Delayed diagnosis.
Postponed treatment.
Decreased immunity to circulating respiratory illnesses.
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'When this new coronavirus arrived it encountered a population where there was no immunity to this new virus;
other than that which accumulates from exposure to the other coronaviruses already in circulation.'
@SunetraGupta Dec '20.
Mini lecture for @collateralglbl.
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'On scale never seen before' Number of children treated for mental health concerns soars express.co.uk/news/uk/138191…
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22 MILLION CHILDREN MISSED MEASLES VACCINATIONS IN 2020
Measles in childhood can cause
Blindness
Pneumonia
Severe diarrhoea
Dehydration
Encephalitis (swelling of the brain)
Death
Severe measles is more likely among poorly nourished young children.
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"I'm not sure that I trust any longer people who've allowed themselves to be led so astray and people who see that something is wrong and don't say anything about it."
"How supposed to trust these people again?"
Watch Podcast with @cliftonaduncan here: loom.ly/c8_9tPo
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Levels of anxiety are soaring among the young, with one in six five- to 16-year-olds reporting a probable mental health disorder last year.
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NEW!
CG Mini-Lecture 3 : How seasonality affects the spread of a new virus
Professor @SunetraGupta explains the concept of herd immunity threshold and how seasonality affects the way a virus spreads through a population.
Watch and read in full: loom.ly/TeFY5iY
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“Billions of disposable pandemic-related debris items mismanaged during Covid will remain in our terrestrial and aquatic environments for decades to come.”
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The number of patients who had waited over 52 weeks in June now stands at over 50,000, and is thirty times higher than in February,before the pandemic.The number had almost doubled in the course of the month from May to June. #totalharms #collateralglobal
tinyurl.com/yymrbbpn
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Government’s ‘psychological strategies’ to manipulate unwitting public’s behaviour may backfire and lead to long-term damage, experts claim.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04…
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"People in Nigeria can be hesitant around vaccination because they know they are the guinea pigs for so many of these pharmaceutical companies."
"They refused to take the vaccination if it had been tested in their country."
Important new podcast here : loom.ly/Q2MTNbU
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Joy Stokes died recently of cancer that went undiagnosed due to NHS COVID-19 restrictions. Nick, her husband of 46 years, tells her story.
Former NHS manager Nick talks to CG.
Watch in full here : piped.video/yk0DP0WGfUY
@AllisonPearson
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NEW CG CONVERSATION
THIS WEDNESDAY 20:00 GMT, 15:00 EST, 12:00 PST
"In long term care facilities, we see that their infection rates were multiple times high compared to the general public"
Click here to set a reminder: loom.ly/jqeVzZ4
@DrJBhattacharya
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‘The economics profession will be haunted for a long time for our failure to speak up for the poor, the working-class, the small businessmen, and the children who have borne the brunt of the lockdown-related collateral harms.’
@DrJBhattacharya collateralglobal.org/article…
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Philippines Lets Children Go Out After a Year of Staying Home.
“The Philippines has allowed minors at least 5 years old to go outdoors, easing one of the world’s strictest pandemic restrictions on kids after keeping them at home for more than a year.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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“It seemed as if what we were looking at was a fly sitting on a pane of glass and we were about to take a hammer to get rid of the fly and shatter the glass” @SunetraGupta.
Watch in full on our @JustGiving page.
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The kids are not okay.
Impact : Severe.
CG Report : collateralglobal.org/article…
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Millions of people missed out on potentially life-saving scans when non-Covid-19 NHS services almost ground to a halt this year, analysis shows.
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A "harrowing" rise in deaths and serious harm of children linked to abuse or neglect in the year since England's first lockdown is a "huge cause for concern", councils have warned. itv.com/news/2021-08-21/harr…
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Tom’s Story - at collateralglobal.org/covid-s… - visit now, add your story and have your voice heard.
"I am Tom, I am now 12 years old, I had just turned 9 when the first lockdown was announced in March 2020. I hated it straight away, I loved school and being with my friends. I am dyslexic and struggle with some things that others manage well.
Online learning didn't work for me - it just made my head fizz and I felt really lonely. I wanted to be with all my friends and teachers, especially the special teacher who helped me make sense of everything.
I felt sadder and sadder as the lockdown went on and on and I started to forget why I ever loved school, it just felt like the adults had thrown it away and so it wasn't really that important to go.
We went back to school properly in September, but it wasn't the same, the rules were still there and all of us kids felt weird and didn't know how to be like we were before.
I know it has been a long time since then but me and my friends still feel sad about it and I don't feel like it will ever feel the same for us, this makes me sad."
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There has been a 77% rise in the number of children needing specialist treatment for severe mental health crisis, analysis for the BBC shows. bbc.co.uk/news/education-601…
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Research examining post-mortems found cases of markedly decomposed bodies increased by 70 per cent between the year before and after the UK went into lockdown on March 23, 2020.
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2021 marked CG’s first year of operation.
Funded *entirely* by public donations we have been building the only independent evidence base to assess the impact of measures taken across the globe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Annual report : collateralglobal.org/article…
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