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Landmark £200m lawsuit launched against government by Covid bereaved families

A first group of 20 families have begun proceedings

Wales Online

Matt Hancock's book sales flop as critics slam 'exercise in self-justification'

Matt Hancock's Pandemic Diaries: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle Against Covid entered the Neilson book charts in 191th place, but has sharply plummeted to outside the top 1,000.

Chronicle Live

Christmas hope for Covid bereaved as landmark £200million lawsuit against Tories begins

The government has been told a £200million lawsuit is set to be launched by families of those who died 'without even being able to say goodbye' due to Tory blunders during the Covid pandemic

Daily Mirror

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Matt Hancock's book sales plummet as reviewers slam 'exercise in self-justification'

His tome Matt Hancock's Pandemic Diaries: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle Against Covid entered the Neilson book charts at number 191 earlier this month and has since plummeted so sharply it’s no longer in the top 1,000

Daily Mirror

Families of care home residents who died in pandemic preparing for legal action

Leigh Day is representing 22 people who each have one or more family members who died, some in hospital but the majority in care homes.

The Independent UK

In jazz, 2022 was a year of resurgence and renewed caution, triumphant returns and major losses

SAN DIEGO — After being largely sidelined in 2020 and too much of 2021, jazz rebounded this year in San Diego, across the nation and around the world — but with some modifications and pandemic-era setbacks and losses.

Tribune News Service

Most members phone it in as House clears spending package - Roll Call

A rule created during the pandemic allowing House members to vote by proxy was popular for the final vote on a massive spending measure.

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Grieving relatives plan legal action against government over Covid care home deaths

The government and potential co-defendants have been alerted to the pending legal action

Evening Standard

Opinion: Why China’s Covid Health Codes Should Be Abandoned

Three experts weigh in on why authorities ought to scrap the once ubiquitous code and whether the underlying technology can be harnessed for other uses

Caixin Global

LA students' grades are rising, but test scores are falling. Why the big disconnect?

LOS ANGELES — Claudia Chacon said her two children, who attend Fairfax High School, bring home good grades in math and English. But when she reviews their individual scores on California's statewide tests, she wonders what they are learning. The standardized exams have shown her boys do not meet grade-level…

Los Angeles Times

China lacked a 'zero COVID' exit plan. Its people are paying the price

At the public hospital in Shanghai where Nora, a 30-year-old doctor, works, tension has spiraled since China relaxed its stringent zero-COVID policy on Dec. 7.

Reuters

Weekly LA County COVID deaths top summer surge. ‘There’s a whole lot of winter left’

LOS ANGELES — Weekly COVID-19 deaths in Los Angeles County are higher than at any point during the summer surge, illustrating the persistent toll the pandemic continues to exact amid concerns that cases could surge again this winter.

Los Angeles Times

New Year spending to hit B103bn

Consumer spending during the New Year holiday is expected to reach 103 billion baht, pushed by the country's continued economic recovery from the pandemic.

Bangkok Post

The Public Trial Right and COVID

In State v. Brimmer, decided today by the Iowa Supreme Court, the majority (Justices Dana Oxley, joined by Justices Christopher McDonald, Matthew McDermott, and David May) concluded that defendant's public trial rights were violated by the complete closure of his trial, including the exclusion of his family (here, just his…

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World-famous Millennium Bridge hit by budget cuts as council plans to axe spectacular summer tilts

Daily openings of the world-first tilting bridge have not taken place since before the pandemic and face being cancelled for good under Gateshead Council's plans to slash spending

The Independent UK

Welsh NHS waiting lists record first fall since Covid-19 pandemic

Data from October reveals there were 753,293 treatments waiting to be completed, the first decrease since April 2020.

Salon

2022: The year the pandemic dragged on

Vaccines and boosters weren't enough to protect us from what mutated into the most infectious virus ever known

Axios

U.S. life expectancy fell again in 2021 amid pandemic, opioid crisis

COVID-19 was the fastest-growing cause of death of Americans in 2021, but was closely followed by an increase in unintentional injuries.

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Rising flu admissions sparks warning of more severe season than pre-pandemic

An average of 1,939 people with flu were in hospital each day last week, up 67% on 1,162 the previous week.

WEKU

How food banks are dealing with rising prices, lower donations and more need

Food banks and nonprofits say inflation has hurt fundraising and made it hard to handle a surge in demand. One CEO says the need is close to the height of the pandemic.

The Conversation

Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries and the history of the redemptive memoir

Matt Hancock has achieved fame in recent months for devouring a cow anus live on television (during his I’m A Celebrity stint) and for releasing questionable TikTok videos cringing about his past “embarrassing” moments.

Reuters

Analysis-How accurate are China's COVID-19 death numbers?

China's narrow criteria for identifying deaths caused by COVID-19 will underestimate the true toll of the pandemic's current wave there and could make it harder to communicate the best ways for people to protect themselves, foreign health experts warn.

WEKU

American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades

A new report shows the pandemic and the overdose crisis helped push down the average life expectancy in the U.S. for a second year in a row.

Tribune News Service

Hopes dim for quick omnibus spending passage amid Title 42 dispute

WASHINGTON — Senators left the Capitol late Wednesday as a partisan dispute over pandemic-era border restrictions snarled debate on the massive fiscal 2023 omnibus spending package.

AAP

RBA must learn from pandemic errors

The Reserve Bank needs to take on board the lessons learnt from its poorly communicated forward guidance, a parliamentary committee has found.

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