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The various ways in which COVID-19 affects the body has made it difficult to find effective treatments, but now scientists think they ve figured out why - it s actually a vascular disease.
That s one which primarily affects blood vessels, in particular endothelial cells, which line the vessels interior. A lot of people think of it as a respiratory disease, but it s really a vascular disease, said Uri Manor, co-author of a new study into how COVID-19 attacks the body. That could explain why some people have strokes, and why some people have issues in other parts of the body. The commonality between them is that they all have vascular underpinnings.
With a potential season seven already having been teased by the BBC, plenty of people aren t willing to accept that Buckells is truly H and some people think they already have the real answer to the million-pound question.
As it happens, there is a decent proportion of people on Twitter who think the real man behind the fall guy is Chief Constable Osborne, who, for most, would be much more plausible than the bumbling Buckells - seriously, we ve read that phrase about 80,000 times today.
After that there has to be a series 7.
Still convinced Osborne is the top dog. #LineOfDuty
In its latest flyer, the 29-page COVID Response Survival Kit , Voices for Freedom makes 17 specific claims. Nine are in a section headed Things that make you go hmmm. and the others under the headline 8 Important COVID Vaccine facts .
In an email to supporters this week, the group called it ninja training - but scientists say it s propaganda, with none of its major claims holding up to scrutiny.
Here s each claim the group makes, and what scientists say is the reality.
Claim #1: Vaccine companies are exempt from ALL liability.
Alison Campbell, a biological sciences lecturer and science educator at the University of Waikato, told Newshub this claim is misleading because our no-fault system of covering injury liability through ACC covers all vaccines, not just those developed for COVID-19.
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Charities in the north-east and Highlands have hailed the easing of lockdown restrictions as a “huge step forward” for those suffering with mental health issues and loneliness.
Alison Campbell, senior coordinator at Befrienders Highland in Inverness, said her organisation has experienced a 62% increase in the number of matches her coordinators have been handling since April 2020.
However, she added that the loneliness charity has also witnessed a large uptake in volunteers signing up to help those in need since the start of the pandemic.