David Livermore

A SPIKE in infant and childhood hepatitis is causing alarm, with over 114 UK cases and 169 worldwide. Most are aged 1-5 years, with a few either side. One child – not in the UK – has died, and 7 in the UK required liver transplants.  All are negative for the viruses (A-E) that ordinarily cause the …

Two years of lockdowns and restrictions have disrupted our natural immune defences Read More »

A PAPER published in the Lancet last week caused a stir, asserting that ‘excess deaths’ owing to the pandemic reached 18.2 million around the world during 2020-21.  This is triple the official COVID-19 death tally of 5.9 million for the same period. For those not steeped in the terminology: ‘Excess Deaths’ are deaths over and above those that …

18 million excess mortality from COVID-19 – what does it mean? Read More »