Category: public health policy

• 13th Mar 2023

  Report from public meeting

  Covid: prevention is possible This report from the Zero Covid Scotland online public meeting includes four videos. The first two videos cover the introductions by the speakers. The subsequent discussion was not recorded. The final two videos cover the speakers responses to the questions and issues raised. The speakers were: Lara Wong, founder of Clinically…
• 4th Mar 2023

  Public meeting: COVID – prevention is possible

  2-3.30 pm, Saturday, 11th March, on Zoom Register here beforehand Since summer 2021, there has hardly been a week when the number of Covid-19 infections across the UK dropped below 1 million. With new variants spreading all the time, people are getting infected again and again, and the number of people suffering from Long Covid…
• 13th Dec 2022

  NEW INEQUALITY, NEW EXCLUSION: IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY

  

  Disability equality and inclusion expert and activist, and Zero Covid Scotland member Sally Witcher explains the lack of sense in the Scottish approach to Covid and its’ related harms whilst also touching on what an inclusive safe alternative should look like.
• 9th Dec 2022

  Six covid myths debunked

  Almost three years into the pandemic, myths and misinformation remain widespread. Here, a virologist, Stephen Griffin, and a public health researcher, Simon Nicholas Williams, debunk some common misconceptions about COVID. This article was originally published in The Conversation on 29th November 2022 under a Creative Commons License. Myth 1: The virus is becoming milder There’s…
• 15th Nov 2022

  SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TO MAKE CUTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTIONS IN TIME FOR WINTER

  

  Spending cuts to the Health and Social Care budget will reduce expenditure on vaccines, test and protect and PPE for health workers – our last remaining, albeit futile defences against Covid-19