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"Pirola" COVID variant is spreading fast

Experts warned Pirola could do serious damage if it gained a foothold. Now that it's growing, what happens next?

Salon

Euro 2024 draw arrives with a twist amid German football’s rising tension

Euro 2024 highlights the best and worst parts of Uefa and modern European football but, as Miguel Delaney outlines, the tournament comes at an intriguing time for the host nation

The Independent UK

Young Adults Suffered Higher Anxiety And Depression Rates During Pandemic

Study reveals over 40% of young adults experienced anxiety and 33% had depression, compared to older age groups

Zenger

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Boris Johnson wanted ‘massive fines’ for lockdown breaches, Covid inquiry hears

PM favoured ‘a lot more punishments’, Patrick Vallance wrote in diary in September 2020, three months after his own law breaking

The Guardian - UK

'Categorically untrue': SNP hit back at reports of Covid affair between politicians

THE SNP have denied media reports of a Covid affair between two unnamed politicians – calling the stories “categorically untrue”.

The National (Scotland)

Texas lawsuit claims Pfizer exaggerated effectiveness of Covid vaccine

State attorney general Ken Paxton files suit despite medical consensus that vaccine prevents severe infection and death

The Guardian - US

Nicola Sturgeon hits back at Matt Hancock's Covid Inquiry 'spin' jibe

FORMER first minister Nicola Sturgeon has hit back at Matt Hancock’s Covid inquiry jibe where he accused her of “spin”...

The National (Scotland)

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Matt Hancock acknowledges his affair with aide damaged public confidence

Mr Hancock resigned as health secretary in June 2021 over an affair with Gina Coladangelo

Evening Standard

Newsom humiliates DeSantis on Fox News

California Gov. Gavin Newsom not only stood up for his state but made a great case for Joe Biden on Fox News

Salon

Hancock messages claimed Sunak ‘would have pressured Johnson’ to avoid lockdown

Former health secretary also discusses discharge of patients to care homes during second day at Covid inquiry

The Guardian - UK

FedEx’s boom and slump is partly just a COVID distortion, says CEO Raj Subramaniam

“If there was no pandemic, the trend [would] be kind of okay,” Subramaniam said at the Fortune Global Forum in Abu Dhabi.

Fortune

The DeSantis-Newsom Debate Was Really a Debate About COVID

Too bad that was only a small part of the 90-minute affair.

Reason

Nicola Sturgeon's 'Covid spin confused the public', Matt Hancock claims

FORMER health secretary Matt Hancock has accused Nicola Sturgeon of “spin” and “confusing” the public during the Covid pandemic.

The National (Scotland)

Matt Hancock tells Covid Inquiry: We could have done more to keep schools open

Hancock accused Manchester mayor Andy Burnham of putting 'politics ahead of public health' in the Covid pandemic

Evening Standard

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Watch again: Matt Hancock speaks at Britain’s Covid inquiry as he insists ‘I’m not a liar’

Watch again as former health secretary Matt Hancock gives evidence at Britain’s Covid inquiry on Friday 2 December.

The Guardian - UK

‘Transgressions’ in personal life may have affected public’s confidence in Covid rules, Matt Hancock tells inquiry – as it happened

Health secretary during pandemic accepts that ‘consequences of rule-breaking’ may have affected ‘public’s propensity to adhere to rules’

The Guardian - UK

A dock of sorts for the men who failed Britain during Covid – but they may yet escape

The dereliction of Boris Johnson and his allies is daily being laid bare, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Independent UK

Newsom forces DeSantis to deny following science on Covid at Fox debate

Statistics suggest California had superior Covid response

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Covid inquiry live: Matt Hancock grilled over affair scandal in awkward exchange

Hancock appears before inquiry again after conceding government should have locked down earlier and denying claims that he is a liar

International Business Times

Russian Pleads Guilty In US To Role In Trickbot Malware Scheme

A Russian man pleaded guilty on Thursday to involvement in developing the Trickbot malware used to extort businesses, including hospitals during the Covid pandemic, the US Justice Department said.

The Texas Tribune

Texas attorney general sues Pfizer, claiming vaccines didn’t end pandemic quickly enough

Experts argue other assertions made in the lawsuit filing are completely unsubstantiated, such as one claiming that vaccinated people were more likely to die from COVID-19, which Texas health data disputes.

The Guardian - UK

Fall guy Matt Hancock tries to rise above the scorn and tell his truth

Trolled by the lead counsel’s tie, Door Matt resolved not to get rattled – easier said than done

The Independent UK

Covid inquiry half-time report: the winners and losers so far

A back-pedalling Matt Hancock came unstuck (again), the ‘two gentlemen of corona’, Vallance and Whitty, were candid, clear and balanced – but overall the hearings will play badly for the Conservative Party, says Sean O’Grady, as he looks ahead to next week’s appearance by Boris Johnson

Evening Standard

Matt Hancock says earlier first Covid lockdown could have stopped 90% of first wave deaths

The former minister said the country should have locked down earlier but he understood why it did not happen

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Matt Hancock at the Covid inquiry: a loss of dignity

Editorial: If the former health secretary wants to avoid being the fall guy for Britain’s pandemic failures, he should stop the constant overclaiming

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