Category: vaccines
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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.
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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…
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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
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What are we up against?
In a week when Independent Sage has shared a devastating analysis of the ongoing damage that Covid is inflicting on people and as the latest Covid wave gathers momentum, Mike Downham gives a personal view of how we have come to a situation where government and many individuals behave as if Covid is yesterday’s problem.…
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Vaccines and Variants – briefing
We are grateful to Dr. Jeremy Rossman for providing us with this up-to-date analysis. Download the briefing here. With the start of fall many of us are wondering what is on the horizon for COVID-19 and what can we do about it. The first key message is that the pandemic is not over and that…
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