Dr Deepti Gurdasani

OPINION

China-bashing is being used to normalise mass-disability and loss of life

— China’s Zero COVID policy is being criticised as a means of legitimising the abandonment of public health in the West.

COMMENT

COVID-19 is an airborne hazard – we need to treat it as such.

— Focusing mainly on therapeutics and vaccines, without attempting prevention of transmission at a population level, is flawed public health.

COMMENT

As COVID rises again, the UK Government’s only plan is denial and distraction.

— “Brace yourselves” for rising COVID cases, the UK Government says. The scandalous failure to plan for long-term protection of lives.

COMMENT

Covid isn’t over.

— Long COVID will have long-lasting impacts on human resources and the economy.

COMMENT

How dare scientists do something to prevent more deaths in the UK!

— Why shouldn’t we look for ways to pursue better health care in the UK? And why wouldn’t we want “to do more” to prevent deaths? Dr Deepti Gurdasani on the scale of normalisation of excess deaths in the UK media.

COMMENT

Masks in schools is not a matter of opinion. It works.

— Suggesting that the benefit of wearing face masks at school to limit the spread of COVID-19 is more based on hope than evidence is misinformation. Even when it comes from the BBC.

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On the Imperial College study on Omicron severity.

— All suggest that the observed reduction in severity is very likely due to the fact that a much larger proportion of omicron cases are people with prior infection.

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Who do we not save?

— Stop using words like ‘balance’ to justify a policy of mass infection, avoidable deaths, and chronic illness. This was never about balance.

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Omicron variant – Signs so far suggest the potential threat is high.

— Given the potential threat of Omicron, it makes sense to assume a worst-case scenario and plan for this, rather than respond too late.

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Covid in the UK is the worst it has ever been. What’s the government doing?

— The latest REACT-1 study shows what many experts and health professionals feared would happen in the UK without mitigations: a higher number of infections in households with children is driving the rise of infection in the 65+ age group. Analysis of the REACT-1 study results by Dr Deepti Gurdasani.

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Long COVID and why choosing to expose children to infection rather than vaccinate them is negligent and harmful.

— Let’s do a deep delve into Long COVID – this syndrome that some in the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) are in denial about!