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 * 03 Feb 2022, Statens Serum Institut, Mortality is declining in Denmark, The latest figures from Week 5, 2022, reveal that the mortality has followed a declining trend in all age groups as from Week 1 and is now approaching the normal level. This occurs even though the number of deaths in which the patient had a positive PCR test is increasing.As the population sees a rise in the number of cases, many of which are less serious, the share of deaths incorrectly recorded as having occurred “due to” Ccovid-19 rather than “with” Covid-19 is expected to rise.
 * 26 Jan 2022, Politico.eu, Extra covid kilos highlight Europe’s deepening obesity crisis, Science is making strides in understanding and treating the disease, but policymakers are being slow to catch up.Between lockdowns, school closures and work-from-home orders imposed by governments throughout the 2-year-old coronavirus pandemic, Europe's obesity problem has only grown in size.
 * 03 Nov 2021, Lemonde.fr, Covid-19 : de nouvelles données sur l’effet de la vaccination sur la transmission du variant Delta, Il est établi que l’administration du vaccin contre la Covid-19 réduit considérablement le risque d’être hospitalisé pour une forme grave de la maladie et de décéder. La vaccination réduit également le risque d’être infecté par le variant Delta, plus transmissible que le variant Alpha (ex-variant anglais).
 * 13 Nov 2021, Economist.com, Eastern European countries are being hit by a wave of covid deaths, But only where vaccination rates are poor Low vaccination rates are not the result of a lack of vaccines. The countries of the arc have ample supply, but also loud anti-vaxxers. Distrust of government and medical staff is high. It is ironic that relatively low levels of infection in the summer seem to have contributed to the scale of current outbreaks.
 * 13 Nov 2021, Economist.com, China will stick to a zero-covid policy, for now, Harsh rules will enjoy support, as long as life feels safe for the majority
 * 08 Nov 2021, Economist.com, The World Ahead 2022 - Covid-19 is likely to fade away in 2022, But the taming of the coronavirus conceals failures in public health.
 * 28 Oct 2021, TheIrishTimes.com, Low vaccine uptake among Central and Eastern European communities, CSO figures show 44 per cent of central and eastern Europeans in Ireland vaccinatedThe CSO data showing low vaccine take-up by eastern European nationals living in Ireland tallies with the numbers of unvaccinated people from these countries being treated in hospital and intensive care units.
 * 27 Oct 2021, Economist.com, People with covid jabs have been less likely to die of other causes
 * 29 Sep 2021, Economist.com, In many rich countries covid-19 has slashed life expectancy to below 2015 levels, For many Western European countries, like Belgium and Spain, the drop was the largest in a single year since the second world war. 
 * 20 Sep 2021, CNBC.com, Covid is officially America’s deadliest pandemic as U.S. fatalities surpass 1918 flu estimates, Covid-19 is officially the most deadly outbreak in recent American history, surpassing the estimated U.S. fatalities from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Reported U.S. deaths due to Covid crossed 675,000, the estimated U.S. fatalities from the 1918 flu, and are still increasing. “This is the pandemic I will be studying and teaching to the next generation of doctors and public-health students,” said medical historian Howard Markel.
 * 13 Sep 2021, (fr) FranceInfo, Covid-19 : faut-il faire une croix sur l'immunité collective ?
 * 11 Sep 2021, Economist.com, A calculated risk - Why scientists are deliberately infecting volunteers with covid-19, “Human challenge trials” may help answer important questions quickly.
 * 05 Sep 2021, Economist.com, The pandemic’s true death toll, Our daily estimate of excess deaths around the world
 * 04 Sep 2021, Economist.com, How the pandemic became stagflationary, As the virus has changed, so has its relationship to the economy
 * 27 Aug 2021, Politico.eu, Blood clot risk from coronavirus infection outweighs risk from vaccine: study, This is the largest study to date, covering almost 30 million people.A study of nearly 30 million people in England who’ve received either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine indicates that the risk of blood clots after contracting coronavirus is many times larger than the risk presented by either vaccine.
 * 22 Aug 2021, Politico.eu, UK launches first countrywide covid antibody survey, The initiative aims to improve understanding of the interaction between vaccines and virus variants.
 * 11 Aug 2021, (fr) francetvinfo.fr, Contaminations, hospitalisations... De nouvelles données confirment l'efficacité du vaccin contre le Covid-19, Des données publiées le 6 août par le ministère de la Santé permettent de connaître le profil vaccinal des personnes contaminées, hospitalisées ou admises en réanimation. Graphiques à l'appui, elles confirment fortement la protection apportée par la vaccination.
 * 07 Aug 2021, Economist.com, Vaccine development - Scientists’ pandemic response could be even faster next time, New research suggests mass vaccination can be scaled up more quickly
 * 31 Jul 2021, Economist.com, Why have some places suffered more covid-19 deaths than others?, Income inequality is a big part of the answer. The first factor relates to pre-existing health. The second potential factor is workplace relations.  The third factor relates to social capital.
 * 31 Jul 2021, Economist.com, Who’s against the jab, Our statistical model throws light on America’s vaccine hesitancy
 * 27 Jul 2021, Economist.com, America’s vaccination woes cannot be blamed only on politics, Surging covid infections and slow vaccinations in some states are caused by health illiteracy, not just partisanship
 * 08 Jul 2021, ECDC, covid-19 in children and the role of school settings in transmission - second update