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      More young people being radicalised online, says UK counter-terror officer

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 17:58


    Senior detective warns children are accessing extreme material as a result of lockdowns, after a 20-year-old was jailed on Monday

    A senior counter-terrorism officer has warned that children and young people are increasingly being radicalised online after spending long periods on the internet during the pandemic.

    Det Supt Andy Meeks said a growing number of vulnerable people were accessing extreme material after spending hours unsupervised online.

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      Visitors to UK attractions increasing but still below pre-Covid levels

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 06:00

    Figures show many still ‘out of the habit’ of visiting museums, galleries, cathedrals, castles and country houses

    Visitor numbers to the UK’s museums, galleries, cathedrals, zoos, castles and country houses are increasing but remain stubbornly below pre-pandemic levels, with a significant number of people still “out of the habit” of having a day out.

    Figures released by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) on Monday show a mixed picture. On the bright side, there was a 19% increase in visitor numbers in 2023 compared with 2022. The British Museum saw a 42% rise, making it the most visited attraction in the UK.

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      Time to stop using term ‘long Covid’ for symptoms like those after flu, study finds

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 00:17

    Queensland research’s lead author says thinking longer-term Covid symptoms are unique can create hypervigilance and impede recovery

    Long Covid may be no different from other post-viral syndromes such as those experienced after flu, according to new research from Queensland Health.

    The lead author of the study, the state’s chief health officer Dr John Gerrard, said it was “time to stop using terms like ‘long Covid’” because they imply there is something unique about the longer-term symptoms associated with the virus, and in some cases create hypervigilance for them which can impede recovery.

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      Growth of gulf between rich and poor countries ‘recipe for much darker future’, says UN

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 16:00

    Human development report finds the pandemic, conflict, globalisation and populism have combined to disproportionately affect lower-income countries

    The gulf between rich and poor countries continues to grow, according to the UN, furthering the reversal of a 20-year trend where the gap steadily shrank until 2020.

    The latest human development report found that although each of the 38 OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries has recovered from the Covid pandemic, only half of the least-developed countries have done so.

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      Covid vaccines cut risk of virus-related heart failure and blood clots, study finds

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 23:30

    Researchers say jabs substantially reduce for up to a year the chances of serious cardiovascular complications

    Covid vaccinations substantially reduce the risk of heart failure and potentially dangerous blood clots linked to the infection for up to a year, according to a large study.

    Researchers analysed health records from more than 20 million people across the UK, Spain and Estonia and found consistent evidence that the jabs protected against serious cardiovascular complications of the disease.

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      Covid bereaved accuse former Welsh health minister of incompetence

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 11 March - 16:06

    Families say Vaughan Gething’s ‘arrogance is astonishing’ after he reveals loss of WhatsApp messages

    Bereaved families who lost loved ones to Covid have accused the former Welsh health minister of incompetence and arrogance after he revealed that all his WhatsApp messages from the time had been lost.

    Vaughan Gething, who is standing to be the next Welsh first minister , said the messages had been a way of “blowing off steam” rather than being used to make government decisions but said he was embarrassed they had vanished.

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      UK report reveals bias within medical tools and devices

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 11 March - 13:00


    Experts say action needed as report finds minority ethnic people, women and those from deprived backgrounds at risk of poorer healthcare

    Minority ethnic people, women and people from deprived communities are at risk of poorer healthcare because of biases within medical tools and devices, a new report has revealed.

    Among other findings, the Equity in Medical Devices: Independent Review, has raised concerns over devices that use artificial intelligence (AI), as well as those that measure oxygen levels.

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      How Covid changed politics | David Runciman

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 7 March - 05:00 · 1 minute

    Four years on from the start of the pandemic, the drama may have subsided but the lingering effects go on. Are we suffering from political long Covid?

    Like many people, I have had Covid and I have had long Covid. They are very different experiences. I first caught the disease at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, when its effects were relatively unknown. It was unnerving and highly unpredictable. I did not get particularly sick, but I probably gave the virus to my father, who did. Back then, Covid appeared to be the great divider – the old were far more at risk than the young, and those with pre-existing vulnerabilities most at risk of all – and the great equaliser. Almost everyone experienced the shock and the fear of discovering a novel killer among us. We soon acquired a shared language and a sense of common purpose: to get through this together – whatever this turned out to be.

    I developed long Covid last year, six months after I had caught glandular fever. The fresh bout of the Covid virus made the effects of the glandular fever far worse: more debilitating and much harder to shake. Some mornings it was a struggle to get out of bed, never mind leave the house. It was as though Covid latched on to what was already wrong with me and gave it extra teeth. The experience was unpredictable in a very different way from the drama of getting sick in 2020: not a cosmic lottery, but a drawn-out bout of low-level, private misery. Good days were followed by bad days for no obvious reason, hopes of having recovered were snuffed out just when it seemed like the worst was past. Long Covid is less isolating than being locked down, but it is also a lonelier business than getting ill at the peak of the pandemic was, if only because other people have moved on.

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      ‘Hypervaccinated’ man reportedly received 217 Covid jabs without side-effects

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 6 March - 01:55

    The 62-year-old, from Germany said he had the large number of vaccines for ‘private reasons’, researchers said

    A “hypervaccinated” German man who reportedly received 217 Covid jabs in 29 months showed “no signs” of ever being infected with the virus that causes Covid-19 and had not reported any vaccine-related side-effects, according to a study published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.

    The 62-year-old, from Magdeburg, Germany said that he had the large number of vaccines for “private reasons”, the researchers from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg said.

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