Over the past 18 months, we have had three national lockdowns. We have grappled with all kinds of other restrictions, too – masks, social distancing and more. Yet despite all this, over 125,000 people have died. Have any of the measures actually worked? And have they justified the enormous collateral damage they have undoubtedly caused?
Carl Heneghan is the director of Oxford University’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and sits on the board of Collateral Global, a publication that analyses the global impact of Covid restrictions.
spiked caught up with him to find out more.
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The PM floated the idea of extending a new ‘Covid certification scheme’ to the hospitality sector last month - and argued: It should not be totally alien to us.
But faced with huge opposition, as well as plunging Covid rates, Mr Johnson is understood to be turning against the idea.
One government source told the Daily Mail: I would be amazed if we introduce Covid certification for hospitality this summer. The focus is more on big events and reopening sectors that we struggled to open last year.
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But the suggestion sparked a huge backlash and it s reported that the PM has quietly dropped the ideaCredit: AFP