The Lancet’s editor has blasted the Government for allowing thousands of needless coronavirus deaths and attacks Sage scientists for being the ‘PR wing’. Dr Richard Horton, who has been editor-in-chief of the prestigious Lancet for 25 years, said people have died as a result of ‘appalling misjudgements’. He said the Government was ‘glaringly unprepared’ for … Read more
A ‘scandalous’ and now retracted medical study which warned against using a drug championed by Donald Trump has flared accusations of political-point scoring. The paper’s claim that hydroxychloroquine increases the risk of death in Covid-19 patients has been used by rivals as a stick to beat the US President, who has himself been taking the drug … Read more
Government’s contain and delay plan FAILED because ministers did not follow WHO advice to ‘test, test, test’ for coronavirus cases leaving NHS in ‘chaos and panic’, Lancet editor says Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, argued numerous warnings were ignored He added that Government’s Contain-Delay-Mitigate-Research plan had failed Total of 759 people have now died … Read more