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Is this the new austerity? What the numbers say

With the chancellor announcing around £4.8 billion of cuts to welfare spending over the next five years, Alicja Hagopian looks at whether the UK is returning to the austerity policies of ther 2010s

The Independent UK

The One Show to take over Piccadilly Circus for 200th One Big Thank You

The segment celebrating community heroes started during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Evening Standard

Tory peer investigated for third time by Lords watchdog over ‘VIP lane’ contracts

Investigation follows publication by Covid-19 inquiry of messages sent by Lord Chadlington introducing SG Recruitment to government

The Guardian - UK

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Five years after the pandemic and Asian Americans are still targets of racist abuse

Stop AAPI Hate is receiving fewer incident reports yearly but they're still happening by the hundreds and are likely an undercount

The Independent UK

'It's the hardest part of grieving': Kate Garraway on navigating solo parenting after Derek Draper's death

Draper passed away at 56 in January last year following a lengthy battle with COVID

Evening Standard

Trump administration at ‘war’ with mRNA technology: scientists alarmed vaccine skeptics could kill research

Public health experts are sounding the alarm over recent move by the NIH to collect information about funding for research into mRNA technology

The Guardian - US

How Australia’s government is spending less on consultants – and trying to rebuild the public service

The post-Covid era has been marked by a global crackdown on government spending on consultants. This phenomenon hasn’t only concerned France, where the “McKinsey-gate” episode concerning President Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 campaign for the Élysée led to a Senate inquiry and spending cuts.

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Will Jay Bhattacharya Get Gain-of-Function Research Under Control?

The past three administrations have tried and failed to implement binding regulations on risky research that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reason

Devolved regions ‘politely entertained but not listened to’ during pandemic

Stormont’s former finance minister Conor Murphy gave evidence on Wednesday to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

Evening Standard

Care home workers to meet with ministers after feeling ‘abandoned’ during Covid

It follows a recent poll where GMB members working in private care homes said things had either stayed the same or worsened since covid.

The Independent UK

Trump administration says it will pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments

Federal health officials said Tuesday they are pulling back $11.4 billion in COVID-19-related funds for local public health departments and other health organizations throughout the nation

The Independent UK

Health experts reveal 24 infectious diseases that could pose major threat to public health - see full list

The list of 24 infectious diseases has been created to help scientists make new tests, vaccines and medication in preparation

The Independent UK

The solution to workplace isolation might be in the gap − the generation gap

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the United States finds itself in the midst of another public health crisis. This particular pandemic is a psychological one: widespread loneliness and isolation.

The Conversation

USPS Chief Louis DeJoy Resigns Amid Privatization Debate, Trump Administration Scrutiny

Louis DeJoy, appointed postmaster general during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced in February that he would step down. He led the USPS through the pandemic and two high-turnout elections with increased mail-in ballots.

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The Guardian - UK

UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families

UK Health Security Agency’s tool highlights viruses and bacteria, many not yet seen in the country, that could pose biosecurity risk

The Independent UK

USPS head Louis DeJoy resigns amid reported clash over DOGE access to mail system

The Republican donor was appointed by Trump himself in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic, but reportedly fell out of favor by clashing with DOGE

Newslaundry

Public money, private patents? Unravelling India’s opacity over its Covid vaccines

Public money, private patents: Unravelling India’s opacity over its Covid vaccines

The Independent UK

NHS reminder to 7.5m people as Covid-19 jab booking system opens

People over the age of 75, residents in care homes for older adults and those with weakened immune systems will be eligible for the jab.

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Love and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On review – is it time to wake up from this collective amnesia?

For most of us, lockdown was like a bad dream. But this extraordinary film meets the people still riddled with guilt and heartbreak – and paints beautiful portraits of those they lost

The Independent UK

Love and Loss: The Pandemic Five Years On is an emotionally shattering re-examination of Covid

5/5 This excellent BBC documentary lays bare the political failures and human costs of an unprecedented period in UK history

The Conversation

Heeding the lessons of COVID-19 in the face of avian influenza

Infectious disease outbreaks have a bad habit of piling on at the worst possible times.

The Independent UK

Welfare in numbers: The facts behind Britain’s soaring benefits bill

As Labour attempts to tighten Britain’s burgeoning welfare belt, Alicja Hagopian and David Maddox investigate the true cost of the welfare state

Evening Standard

Scotland avoided PPE ‘VIP lane’ due to devolution, UK Covid-19 Inquiry told

Former Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman told the inquiry that Scotland ‘did not have a VIP lane and did not need one’.

Evening Standard

Swinney speaks of ‘unbearable’ loss of life from Covid on lockdown anniversary

The first lockdown was imposed across the UK on March 24 2020.

Reason

N.C. Court on Compensation for (Apparently Unauthorized) Forced Vaccination by School

The court concludes that the federal 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act preempts state battery claims, but not state constitutional law claims.

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